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joiner, n.|ˈdʒɔɪnə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 ioynour, -or, -ar, (5 ionyowre, ionour, iunour), 5–7 ioyner, (6 ioigner), 6–7 ioiner, 7–8 joyner, 7– joiner.
[ME. ioynour, a. AF. joignour, OF. joigneor, f. joigner to join: subseq. conformed to agent-nouns in -er: see -or, -er1.]
1. a. One who joins, connects, unites: see join v.1
1483Cath. Angl. 199/2 A Ionour, junctor,..confederator. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. xiii. viii, O ioyner of vertue and well of vnyte. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. i. §8 Some, Housewrights; some, Shipwrights;..some, the Ioyners of smaller workes. 1642C. Vernon Consid. Excheq. 38 The two Deputy Chamberlaines, being Joyners of the Tallies.
b. One who makes a habit of joining societies, etc. Cf. join v.1 15 b. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1890Ann Arbor (Mich.) Reg. 13 Mar., Ypsilanti is a good place for ‘jiners’. There are..100 societies and organizations that a person can join. 1923R. Macaulay Told by Idiot 36 That was Stanley's headlong manner of entering into movements. She was a great and impetuous joiner. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 690/2 He is not a ‘joiner’, that [is] he resists the temptation to cash in on stock fashionable attitudes. 1967W. Murray Sweet Ride vii. 109 I'm not a joiner, you know? I mean, all they do is party, party, party all the time. 1971Guardian 6 July 8/5 You could not see Bogart as a marcher or a singer or a joiner—he was strictly solo. 1973C. Mullard Black Brit. iii. vii. 78 Sadly, this meant that people who were not ‘joiners’, but who might have been active in race relations, were not considered.
2. a. A craftsman whose occupation it is to construct things by joining pieces of wood; a worker in wood who does lighter and more ornamental work than that of a carpenter, as the construction of the furniture and fittings of a house, ship, etc.
1386Pat. Roll 9 Rich. II, i. memb. 3. 10 Jan., Joynour. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, For eche caruer and curious ioyner. 1428E.E. Wills 82 Y be-quethe to Iohn Hewet, Ioynour, my cosyn..vjs. viijd. 1523Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII, c. 2 Vsing any of the misteries..of smithes, joigners, or coupars. 1563Shute Archit. A ij b, Enbroderers, Caruers, Ioynars, Glassyers. 1649Fuller Just Man's Fun. 23 Let..the most exquisite Joyner make the coffin. 1710Tatler No. 252 ⁋4 What Method is to be taken to make Joiners and other Artificers get out of a House they have once entered. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 43 The workshops..of joiners and cabinet-makers.
b. In possessive case, denoting tools used specially by joiners: see quot. 1875. joiner's work: (a) the work or occupation of a joiner; (b) woodwork made by a joiner.
1530Palsgr. 234/2 Ioyners worke, menvserie. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §199 Inclosing it with a Rail of Joiners Work. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 236 The Joiner's Bench is composed of a platform or top, supported by four substantial legs [etc.]. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 582 Rebates are also used for ornamenting mouldings, and for many other purposes in joiners' work. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 130 English joiners' work of the fifteenth century. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1217/1 Joiner's-chisel..Joiner's-clamp..Joiner's-gage..Joiner's-plane.
3. transf. A machine for doing various kinds of work in wood.
1875in Knight Dict. Mech.
4. Comb. joiner-work = joiner's work: see 2 b. (In quot. 1875 fig.)
1562in Our Eng. Home (1861) 161 note, Buffet stoles of joyner worke. 1875Lowell Wks. (1890) IV. 280 There is a passage..that comes near being fine; but the far greater part is mere joiner-work. 1893Earl Dunmore Pamirs I. 278, I admired all the joiner-work; the patterns..were thoroughly Chinese.
Hence ˈjoiner v. intr., to do the work of a joiner; ˈjoinering, the work of a joiner, or a piece of this.
1839Carlyle Chartism x. 183 They are twenty-four millions..weaving, delving..joinering. 1884Manch. Exam. 17 Nov. 5/2 [He] had a workshop wherein he did carpentering and joinering. 1888Pall Mall G. 24 May 2/1 We found them busy joinering in a room in which, save for uniform of the warder, there was nothing to indicate that the prisoners were not ordinary carpenters. |