housewright means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From house + wright (“builder”).
noun
- A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).“The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil.”