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单词 carpentry
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carpentryn.

/ˈkɑːpəntri/
Forms: Also Middle English carpentarie.
Etymology: < Old Northern French carpenterie = French charpenterie (= Provençal carpentaria , Spanish carpinteria ) < Latin carpentāria (sc. fabrica ) carriage-maker's workshop: compare -ry suffix.
1. The trade or art of a carpenter; the art of cutting, working, and joining timber into structures.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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