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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
joiner
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even in 1949 there were two joiners and a blacksmith, a school, post office and eight shops.
▪ Having given Tam and Richie some very specific tasks I went off the following morning in search of a joiner.
▪ I desire you to ask your good father if he can procure me a joiner or two and one or two masons.
▪ Other facilities include a doctor's surgery, a joiner and funeral director, and building and electrical businesses.
▪ They both agree that Mike, though not a joiner, is the more social of the two.
▪ Within every educational category, heavy newspaper readers are avid joiners, whereas heavy viewers are more likely to be loners.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Joiner

Joiner \Join"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, joins.

  2. One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings. ``One Snug, the joiner.''
    --Shak.

  3. A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc.

    Syn: See Carpenter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
joiner

early 14c. (late 12c. as a surname), joynour "maker of furniture, small boxes, etc.," from Old French joigneor "joiner, carpenter," agent noun from joindre "to join" (see join). A craftsman who did lighter and more ornamental work than a carpenter. Meaning "one who makes a habit of joining" (societies, clubs, etc.) is from 1890. Related: Joinery.

Wiktionary
joiner

n. 1 A thing that joins two separate items, e.g. software to connect video or music clips. 2 A maker of wooden furniture or fittings.

WordNet
joiner
  1. n. a person who likes to join groups

  2. a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood

Gazetteer
Joiner, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 540
Housing Units (2000): 223
Land area (2000): 0.290323 sq. miles (0.751932 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.290323 sq. miles (0.751932 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35650
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.507345 N, 90.150245 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72350
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Joiner

A joiner is an artisan who builds things by joining pieces of wood, particularly lighter and more ornamental work than that done by a carpenter, including furniture and the "fittings" of a house, ship, etc. Joiners may work in a workshop, because the formation of various joints is made easier by the use of non-portable, powered machinery, or on job site. A joiner usually produces items such as interior and exterior doors, windows, stairs, tables, bookshelves, cabinets, furniture, etc. In shipbuilding a marine joiner may work with materials other than wood such as linoleum, fiberglass, hardware, and gaskets.

The terms joinery and joiner are obsolete in the USA, although the main trade union for carpenters still calls itself the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.

In the UK, an apprentice of wood occupations could choose to study bench joinery or site carpentry and joinery. Bench joinery is the preparation, setting out, and manufacture of joinery components while site carpentry and joinery focus on the installation of the joinery components, and on the setting out and fabrication of timber elements used in construction.

Joiner (disambiguation)

A joiner is a type of woodworker.

Joiner may also refer to:

  • Joiner (surname)
  • Joiner, Arkansas, a town in the United States
  • Biscuit joiner, a woodworking tool
  • A defector to the British side during the Second Boer War
  • Joiners (photographic technique), a photo-collage technique
  • A joiner is one of various typographic control characters
    • Zero-width joiner
    • Combining grapheme joiner
Joiner (surname)

Joiner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alvin Joiner (born 1974), American rapper known as Xzibit
  • Charlie Joiner (born 1947), American football player and coach
  • Michael Joiner (born 1981), American basketball player
  • Rusty Joiner (born 1972), American model

Usage examples of "joiner".

Piece by piece he was assembling the costly treasures for its furnishing fine hand-turned bedsteads and chests and chairs from the skilled Wethersfield joiner, Peter Blinn, glossy pewter plates and a set of silver spoons from Boston, real china bowls of blue and white Delft from Holland.

Joiner, as he seemed to prefer being called for the time being, evidently told Skookum where he could take his ideas.

In the end I swallowed two Temazepam and spent the night in a daze, seeing a squadron of policemen and joiners break down the walls with pickaxes before marching rhythmically round and round my bedroom.

Bakers, blacksmiths, brewers, ship joiners and shipwrights, coopers, cartmen and tailors, all marched.

And now he found it once more superb and cheerful, renovated with healthier and more substantial luxury by Ambroise, who had put masons and joiners and upholsterers into it for a period of three months.

Outside that armed barrier all the household would be gathered, and all the workmen who had built the church, the plumbers, the glaziers, the masons, the joiners, the clerks and draughtsmen, the labourers.

There was nothing in Pell's manner to suggest that he was not totally engrossed in his future as a joiner, especially after his lady showed Jaxom and Sharra the beautiful little coffer Pell had made her.

But I could not see how this could be done in their country, where the smallest wherry was equal to a first rate man-of-war among us, and such a boat as I could manage would never live in any of their rivers: her Majesty said, if I would contrive a boat, her own joiner should make it, and she would provide a place for me to sail in.

But Spargus insisted on Gibbs doing the coaling, seeing that he was a joiner and that coal is notoriously fossil wood.

On the way we passed the avenue's empty shops, where haberdashers and tobacconists, watchmakers and smiths, joiners and cobblers and ostlers plied their trades long before our grandparents were born.

Jack, who as usual was making what observations were possible - observations of temperature atvarious depths, salinity, humidity of the air and so on for his friend Humboldt - showed Stephen his sea-chest, which had been brought up on to the half-deck so that the joiner might add an additional till or tray, a very stout chest indeed, that had seen and survived almost every kind of weather the world could offer: but the harmattan had split its lid - a broad cleft from one end to the other.

Besides cutting logs into rough lumber, there was a drying kiln, and power-operated planers, joiners, and routers.

Aided by its police gang, the Committee of Public Safety itself selects the sixteen judges and sixty jurymen[122] from among the most servile, the most furious, or the most brutal of the fanatics:[123] Fouquier- Tinville, Hermann, Dumas, Payan, Coffinhal, Fleuriot-Lescot, and, lower down on the scale, apostate priests, renegade nobles, disappointed artists, infatuated studio-apprentices, journeymen scarcely able to write their names, shoemakers, joiners, carpenters, tailors, barbers, former lackeys, an idiot like Ganney, a deaf man like Leroy-Dix-Août.