单词 | carpentry |
释义 | carpentryn. 1. The trade or art of a carpenter; the art of cutting, working, and joining timber into structures. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] tree-workc1275 carpentry1377 wrightinga1500 wrightrya1500 carpenter-work?1553 carpentership1574 wright-work1630 chipping trade1792 carpentering1838 woodcraft1853 woodworking1872 axemanship1893 woodwork1913 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 178 Tooles of carpentrie. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxxv. 33 Werkis of carpentarye. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxx. 144 Two connyng men maisters in carpentre. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 72 Carpentarie..dealeth with wood. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 120 It had been more proper for me in these Exercises to have introduced Carpentry before Joynery. 1836 R. W. Emerson Spirit in Nature in Wks. (1906) II. 166 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry. 1873 Roorkee 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). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > as (part of) a structure timber-work1390 timbering1486 carpentry1555 carpentage1648 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. 46 The chiefe citie..stondeth not by building of masonrie, & carpentrie as ours. 1616 G. Markham Countrey Farm 333 Borne vp with carpentrie or frames of timber. 1770 B. Franklin Wks. (1887) IV. 352 The carpentry of the roof..is..sheeted or covered with deals. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. iii. 184 Solid well-painted carpentry. 3. attributive. ΚΠ 1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 832 Carpentry Wood..brought here from Lower Saxony. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 542 The inward carpentry-work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1377 |
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