carpentry

UK/ˈkɑː.pɪn.tri/

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Carpentry is the trade of making things from timber. Learn carpentry, rough carpentry, a piece of fine carpentry.

First fix carpentry is the structure and second fix is everything you see afterwards. Good carpentry allows for wood moving with the seasons rather than fighting it.

Definitions of carpentry

1nouncarpentryThe trade of making things from timber.C1
“The carpentry in that roof has held for four hundred years.”

carpentry is a trade.

Where it comes from

Old French carpenterie comes from Latin carpentarius, a wagon maker, from carpentum, a cart.

Anglo-Norman
carpenterie
Middle English
carpentrie
English, today
carpentry

From Middle English carpentrie, from Anglo-Norman carpenterie, from fro-nor - (compare French charpenterie). See carpenter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

carpentry in the wild

In 2006 in the United States, there were about 1.5 million carpentry positions.
Carpentry
Carpenters normally framed post-and-beam buildings until the end of the 19th century; now this old-fashioned carpentry is called timber framing.
Carpentry
The steel square is a tool used in carpentry.
Steel square
Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, furniture, concrete formwork, mirrors, and to facilitate assembly of many mechanical engineering designs.
Chamfer
Japanese carpentry is carpentry in Japan, which was first developed in the 12th century.
Japanese carpentry

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