cabinet-makern.
1. One whose business it is to make cabinets (sense 5), and the finer kind of joiner's work.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of furniture or furnishings > [noun] > cabinet-maker
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1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 59 Mr. Att. Gen. What Trade are you? Mr. Hickman. A Cabinet-maker.
1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 614 One Johnson, a popish cabinet maker.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iii. 53 The Queen commanded her own Cabinet-maker to contrive a Box.
1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce i. ii. 43 Joiners' and cabinet-makers' work.
2. casual. One who constructs a political cabinet.
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1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Nov. 2/4 The Cabinet-makers, office-seekers, and schemers who abound in Washington.
Derivatives
ˈcabinet ˌmaking n. the cabinet-maker's occupation; the construction of a political cabinet.
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1813 in Examiner 1 Feb. 71/2 They'll fit you..whatever your trade is; (Except it be Cabinet-making).
1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xv. 2 The gentle craft of cabinet-making.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 June 1/2 Hitches are inevitable whenever Cabinet-making is undertaken.
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