[f. CART sb. + WRIGHT.] A carpenter who makes carts.
14[?]. York Myst., Introd. 26.
1483. Cath. Angl., 5. A Cartewright, caractareus.
1589. Pappe w. Hatchet, B iij b. Be a ship-wright, cart-wright, or tiburn-wright.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. i. § 8. 193. Some, Housewrights; some, Shipwrights; some, Cartwrights; and some, the Ioyners of smaller workes.
1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 268. As essential … as the millwright or cartwright.
Hence Cartwrighting, doing cartwright’s work.
1850. Marg. Fuller, Life Without & Within (1860), 124. The blacksmithing, cartwrighting … and grain-grinding.
