单词 | joiner |
释义 | joinern. 1. a. One who joins, connects, unites: see join v.1 ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > joining together > one who or that which knitterc1440 joiner1483 conjoinera1638 1483 Cath. Angl. 199/2 A Ionour, junctor,..confederator. ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. gg.iiiv O ioyner of vertue and well of vnyte. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. i. §8. 193 Some, Housewrights; some, Shipwrights;..some, the Ioyners of smaller workes. 1642 C. Vernon Considerations Excheqver 38 The two Deputy Chamberlaines, being Joyners of the Tallies. b. One who makes a habit of joining societies, etc. Cf. join v.1 15b colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > member > one who habitually joins joiner1890 1890 Ann Arbor (Mich.) Reg. 13 Mar. Ypsilanti is a good place for ‘jiners’. There are..100 societies and organizations that a person can join. 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot 36 That was Stanley's headlong manner of entering into movements. She was a great and impetuous joiner. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 690/2 He is not a ‘joiner’, that [is] he resists the temptation to cash in on stock fashionable attitudes. 1967 W. Murray Sweet Ride vii. 109 I'm not a joiner, you know? I mean, all they do is party, party, party all the time. 1971 Guardian 6 July 8/5 You could not see Bogart as a marcher or a singer or a joiner—he was strictly solo. 1973 C. 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > joiner joiner1386 1386 Pat. Roll 9 Rich. II i. memb. 3. 10 Jan. Joynour. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xi For eche caruer and curious ioyner. 1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 82 Y be-quethe to Iohn Hewet, Ioynour, my cosyn..vjs. viijd. 1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 2 Vsing any of the misteries..of smithes, joigners, or coupars. 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Aiiv Enbroderers, Caruers, Ioynars, Glassyers. 1649 T. Fuller Just Mans Funeral 23 Let..the most exquisite Joyner make the coffin. 1710 Tatler No. 252. ⁋4 What Method is to be taken to make Joiners and other Artificers get out of a House they have once entered. 1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce i. ii. 43 The workshops..of joiners and cabinet-makers. b. In possessive case, denoting tools used specially by joiners: see quot. 1875. joiner's plane: a type of bench-plane used to produce matching surfaces for joining. joiner's work: (a) the work or occupation of a joiner; (b) woodwork made by a joiner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > joiner's work joiner's work1530 joiner-work1562 joinery1796 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 234/2 Ioyners worke, menvserie. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 73 Inclosing it with a Rail of Joiners work. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 236 The Joiner's Bench is composed of a platform or top, supported by four substantial legs [etc.]. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 582 Rebates are also used for ornamenting mouldings, and for many other purposes in joiners' work. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 130 English joiners' work of the fifteenth century. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1217/1 Joiner's-chisel..Joiner's-clamp..Joiner's-gage..Joiner's-plane, a bench-plane for facing and matching boards. 3. transferred. A machine for doing various kinds of work in wood. ΚΠ 1875 in E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. Compounds joiner-work n. = joiner's work at sense 2b. (In quot. 1875 figurative.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > joiner's work joiner's work1530 joiner-work1562 joinery1796 1562 in Our Eng. Home (1861) 161 (note) Buffet stoles of joyner worke. 1875 J. R. Lowell Wks. (1890) IV. 280 There is a passage..that comes near being fine; but the far greater part is mere joiner-work. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 278 I admired all the joiner-work; the patterns..were thoroughly Chinese. Derivatives ˈjoiner v. (intransitive) to do the work of a joiner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > work with wood [verb (intransitive)] > join or do work of joiner joiner1888 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 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. ˈjoinering n. the work of a joiner, or a piece of this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > joinery joining-work1562 contignationa1631 joinery1678 joining1680 joinering1839 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism x. 109 They are twenty-four millions..weaving, delving,..joinering. 1884 Manch. Examiner 17 Nov. 5/2 [He] had a workshop wherein he did carpentering and joinering. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1386 |
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