Carpentry definition

kärpən-trē
The work or trade of a carpenter.
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The work or trade of a carpenter.
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(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.
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(countable) A carpenter's workshop.
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Woodwork done by a carpenter.

A room that was appointed with fine carpentry.

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Noun

Singular:
carpentry
Plural:
carpentries

Origin of carpentry

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

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Carpentry Sentence Examples

  • In 1907 the school had 813 students, of whom 313 were girls; it has an academic department, a business school and courses in domestic science, in farming, dairying and gardening, and in masonry, carpentry, painting, blacksmithing, waggonmaking, shoemaking, steam-fitting, printing and other trades.

  • I was temporarily encouraged when I saw it was stocked with carpentry tools; saws, hammers, nails, all potential weapons!

  • I learned plastering, carpentry, wiring the lot.

  • He has demonstrated a great aptitude for carpentry skills.

  • Boys ' were trained in small ' shops ' in the trades of bootmaking, tailoring, carpentry, baking and gardening.

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