(rīt) noun
1. One who does mechanical or constructive work.
2. An artificer or workman: used chiefly in compounds: shipwright. ♦ Homophones: right, rite, write. [OE wyrhta]

(rit), Frank Lloyd,
1867–1959, U.S. architect.
—Harold Bell,
1872–1944, U.S. novelist.
—Joseph,
1855–1930, English philologist and lexicographer.
—Orville,
1871–1948, U.S. pioneer in aviation, with his brother Wilbur,
1867–1912.
—Richard,
1908–1960, U.S. novelist.
—Willard Huntington,
1888–1939, U.S. writer and art critic: pseudonym S. S. Van Dine.