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carpentry
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., carpentrie , from Old French carpenterie , charpenterie "carpentry" (Modern French charpenterie ), from Latin carpentaria (fabrica) "carriage-maker's (workshop);" see carpenter .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Carpentry is a skilled trade in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings , ships , timber bridges , concrete formwork , etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood [syn: woodworking , woodwork ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Carvers' chisels differ from carpentry chisels in the way they are sharpened. ▪ Fong knew they were beautiful, but still he remembered his resolutions and refused to do any carpentry for anyone but himself. ▪ He did not do his ...
Usage examples of carpentry.
Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.
Beauty and Lionheart were relieved to find that their awkward carpentry and inexperienced mends were holding firm and that, so far as they could tell, there was nothing terribly wrong with their little house.
He willingly leaped from parenthood to carpentry and the surer footing he had there.
The tools were mostly old-fashioned implements intended for minor carpentry jobs around the house and for working in the flower and truck gardens the Brattles kept.
He left school when he was fourteen, taking up carpentry as a profession, and, as Bradley Klein points out in his biography of Ross, Peter Murray, the master carpenter for whom he worked, made the wooden boxes that held the sand golfers collected into a pile to create a tee.
Farmers scratched the ground again, charcoal burners ritually sealed their kilns and put their hands to carpentry or roadmending for a while, and fifteen hundred devotees of the Ice Cult started their pilgrimages from all over North America to see the breakup at Niagara.
He might have had many more books from Bartle Massey, but he had no time for reading "the commin print," as Lisbeth called it, so busy as he was with figures in all the leisure moments which he did not fill up with extra carpentry.
Knowing a little bit about coopering and carpentry and smithing will be useful.
She had a heavy-duty thermal sleeping bag, another quilt, clothing, skis, snowshoes, an ax, a hatchet, cross and hacksaws, and enough nails and screws to set up a carpentry shop.
The store was fully completed and stocked with quilts, canned goods, jewelry, clothing, carpentry, and other items which had been taken from Eisenhower and which would be foisted on the Germans as produce of the deaf-mutes if any krauts wandered into the place.
On the second day, a construction worker operating a mixer on Duane Street told me Tommy looked like a guy doing carpentry renovation on a project on the Lower East Side.
He knew plumbing, carpentry, electrical work, and motor vehicle mechanics.
Why is our pilot house, and so many others, all fancied up with curlicues and carvings and trim, why is every steamer worth her name full of fine wood and carpets and oil paintings and jigsaw carpentry?
Carpentry and masonry managers, from foremen up, will report to my office at zero six to discuss scheduling changes.
She set aside various articles he'd clipped out, on inventions, foresting, carpentry, shopkeeping.