Crossword clues for carpentry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carpentry \Car"pen*try\, n. [F. charpenterie, OF. also carpenterie. See Carpenter.]
The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.
An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking 2 (context countable English) A carpenter's workshop.
WordNet
n. the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood [syn: woodworking, woodwork]
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 natural wood and did the rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials are also used and sometimes the finer trades of cabinetmaking and furniture building are considered carpentry. Carpentry in the United States is almost always done by men. With 98.5% of carpenters being male, it was the fourth most male-dominated occupation in the country in 1999, and there were about 1.5 million positions in 2006. Carpenters are usually the first tradesmen on a job and the last to leave. Carpenters normally framed post-and-beam buildings until the end of the 19th century; now this old fashioned carpentry is called timber framing. Carpenters learn this trade by being employed through an apprenticeship training—normally 4 years—and qualify by successfully completing that country's competence test in places such as the UK, USA and South Africa. It is also common that the skill can be learnt by gaining work experience other than a formal training program, which may be the case in many places.
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.