Other forms: joiners
A joiner is a carpenter who makes doors, windows and stairs. A skilled joiner, the joiner's workshop, work as a joiner.
The trade splits in Britain: a joiner works in a workshop making the pieces and a carpenter fits them on site, though many people do both. The name is exact, since the craft is in the joints. In American English the word is barely used.
1nounjoinerA carpenter who makes doors, windows and stairs.
“We hired a joiner to build new wooden stairs and fit the window frames.”
joiner is a craftsman.
Old French joigneor comes from joindre, to join, from Latin iungere.
Proto-Indo-European
*yewg-
Old French
joigneor — joiner, carpenter
Middle English
joynour — maker of furniture, small boxes, etc.
English, today
joiner
Built from
From Middle English joynour (“maker of furniture, small boxes, etc.”), from Old French joigneor (“joiner, carpenter”), agent noun from joindre (“to join”), equivalent to join + er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA