Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wright

Wright , noun

[Old English wrighte, writhe, Anglo-Saxon wyrtha, from wyrcean to work. r145. See Work.]

One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
He was a well good wright, a carpenter. — Chaucer