carpentry
carpentry
Definition
car·pen·try (kär′pən trē)
noun
the work or trade of a carpenter
Etymology: ME & OFr carpenterie
carpentry
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- tailor: Boys ' were trained in small ' shops ' in the trades of bootmaking, tailoring, carpentry, baking and gardening.
- do: I did some carpentry & Wendy put a coat of primer on the roof.
- include: Installation does not include any carpentry required to install into kitchen units.
- learn: The boys went to Filton Council School to learn carpentry.
- decorate: Includes sections on decorating, carpentry, electrics, general building and much, much more.
- finish: Meanwhile, finish carpentry for new part of building.
Preposition: on
- timber: Come and help us do carpentry on the roof timbers, build pig gates, dig gardens, stonewall, coppicing and hedge laying.
Adjective modifier
- interior: The kitchen and bathrooms are fully tiled, all interior carpentry is in pinewood.
- internal: For most applications, timber of any durability class does not require treatment for internal carpentry or joinery.
- basic: Various construction techniques including basic carpentry would also be beneficial.
- medieval: In addition to numerous complete items of clothing, evidence was also found of exquisite medieval carpentry in surviving coffins.
- traditional: Old skills such as lime plastering, thatching, traditional carpentry, and stonemasonry are still extant but scarce.
- electrical: These include plumbing, electrical, carpentry and brickwork.
Modifies a noun
- workshop: In seeking to meet these economic needs, Victory Outreach already offers carpentry workshops to former addicts.
- repair: Carpentry repairs were also carried out at the porter's house.
- skill: Geoff offers to use his carpentry skills to make a frame for Sam's collage mural.
- tool: The blocks are easily cut to any shape using standard carpentry tools.
- shop: There was also a carpentry shop housed in a barn at the rear of Rose cottage.
- business: Five years later, Dick Kelty quit his carpentry business to start an outdoor gear company.
Noun used with modifier
- roof: The roof carpentry of the barn is especially important, as there are few examples of this size and complexity left in England.
carpentry Quotes
She transformed junkyards of secular carpentry into almost sacred altarpieces.
Browse dictionary entries near carpentry
- carpenter bee
- carpenter ant
- carpenter
- Carpentaria
- carpellate
- carpellary
- carpel
- carpe diem
- Carpathians
- Carpathian Mountains
- carper
- carpet
- carpet-bomb
- carpet-bombing
- carpet sweeper
- carpetbag
- carpetbagged
- carpetbagger
- carpetbagging
- carpeting
