Cartwright

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A cartwright's workshop.

Cartwright is the occupation of making and repairing carts. The word is the combination of "cart" and the archaic word "wright", which comes from the Old English word "wryhta", meaning a worker or maker.^[1] It can also refer to:

In places:

• Cartwright, Manitoba, Canada
• Cartwright, New South Wales, Australia
• Cartwright, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Cartwright, North Dakota, United States
• Cartwright, Oklahoma, United States
• Cartwright Sound, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

In medicine:

• Cartwright (transfusion), a blood antigen system

In other uses:

• Cartwright Airport, an airport in Cartwright, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Cartwright Hall, an art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
• Cartwright High School, in Blackstock, Ontario
• Cartwright Inquiry, an investigation into medical malpractive in New Zealand
• Cartwright Point, a neighbourhood of Kingston, Ontario Canada

See also

• Cartwright (surname)
• Wainwright - closely related occupation of making and repairing wagons.

References

1. ^ Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, ISBN 0-87779-338-7

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