carpentry
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈkɑːrpəntri/
- Her passion for carpentry led her to create beautiful wooden toys for children.
- jobs in carpentry
- carpentry and masonry
- carpentry and plumbing
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Watch on YouTubeHe does, you know, carpentry and painting and sheetrocking and all that kind of stuff.
- He does, you know, carpentry and painting and sheetrocking and all that kind of stuff.
- You don't know what that means, but in European terms that means he passed only one course when he left school, carpentry.
- So before very long at all, I was doing the trim carpentry, I was building bookcases and built in cabinet work.
- So career wise, I then went off and got an apprenticeship, carpentry.
- And I'm starting to learn some of the skills that I think my spirit craved building carpentry.
- If you get a hammer, it's not going to teach you how to be a better Carpenter and may make the creation of carpentry easier.
- I, I, I like to see him maybe, you know, doing some carpentry up in Alaska, living the dream, going to counseling.
- You know, that's a big part of it because when I was really small, my father did a lot of carpentry, carpentry work.
- You do some carpentry and you also, you know, when it's festival time behave in this way and you contribute a little bit of tax to this.
Examples
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Tom Vessella is an assistant professor of carpentry at Los Angeles Trade Technical College.
Academic text (2012) -
My next job was as a laborer on a rough carpentry crew while going to school.
Blog text (27) -
Old man owns a carpentry shop there.
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The carpentry shop is gone.
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And I, uh... I also do my own carpentry.
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Besides, she says, she can do some carpentry to supplement.
Fiction book (1994) -
Not the most skilled at carpentry.
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You know, that's a big part of it because when I was really small, my father did a lot of carpentry, carpentry work.
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I tell her I've been doing roofing and carpentry since I moved here.
Fiction book (1996) -
Bobbie does occasional carpentry work on the Victorian mansions nearby, just to keep himself going.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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3.2
A way of making things from wood by hand or with tools
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3.4
Making things from wood by hand, often as a hobby
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6.0
Skill in carving and shaping wood to make objects like furniture
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Etymology
Carpentry comes from an old Latin word for a wooden 'wagon' and is related to carpenter, which once meant a 'wagon maker' and later a 'wood worker'. So carpentry is the skill of making and repairing things from wood.