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carpentry|ˈkɑːpəntrɪ|
Also 4 carpentarie.
[a. ONF. carpenterie = F. charpenterie (= Pr. carpentaria, Sp. carpinteria):—L. carpentāria (sc. fabrica) carriage-maker's workshop: cf. -ry.]
1. The trade or art of a carpenter; the art of cutting, working, and joining timber into structures.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 178 Tooles of carpentrie. 1382Wyclif Ex. xxxv. 33 Werkis of carpentarye. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cxx. 144 Two connyng men maisters in carpentre. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 72 Carpentarie..dealeth with wood. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 117 It had been more proper for me in these Exercises to have introduced Carpentry before Joinery. 1836Emerson Nature, Spirit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 166 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry. 1873Roorkee Civil Engineer. I. iii. §241 Carpentry is the art of combining pieces of Timber for the support of any considerable weight or pressure.
2. Timber-work constructed by the carpenter; ‘an assemblage of pieces of timber connected by framing, or letting them into each other, as are the pieces of a roof, floor, centre, etc.’ (Gwilt).
1555Fardle Facions i. iv. 46 The chiefe citie..stondeth not by building of masonrie, & carpentrie as ours. 1616Markham Countr. Farm 333 Borne vp with carpentrie or frames of timber. 1770Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 VI. 335 The carpentry of the roof..is sheeted or covered with deals. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. vii. iii, Solid well-painted carpentry.
3. attrib.
1750Beawes Lex Mercat. (1752) 832 Carpentry Wood..brought here from Lower Saxony. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 542 The inward carpentry-work. |