carpentry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The trade of manipulating materials in order to construct, install, and/or repair buildings or other structures.
The trade of cutting and joining wood, timber, or lumber; woodworking.
A carpenter’s workshop.
A collection of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

/ˈkɑː.pɪn.tri/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-carpentry.wav

carpentry carpentries

From Middle English carpentrie, from Anglo-Norman carpenterie, from Old Northern French (compare French charpenterie). See carpenter.

carpenting

carpenter cabinetmaking joinery

carpentry square petrified carpentry

Chinese Mandarin: 木作 Finnish: puusepäntyö Hungarian: ácsmunka Hungarian: ácsolat Hungarian: ácsolás Macedonian: столарија

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