carpentry

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  1. The art of cutting, framing, and joining the timbers or woodwork of buildings and similar constructions by means of hand-tools. Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry. Emerson, Misc., p. 56.
  2. Carpenters' work; any work of the kind done by carpenters. A handsome, panelled door, the most finished piece of carpentry in Silverado. R. L. Stevenson, Silverado Squatters, p. 145.

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  1. from Middle English carpentrie, -tarye, from Old French carpenterie, French charpenterie = Provencal carpentaria = Spanish carpentería, carpintería = Portuguese carpentaria = Italian carpenteria, from Middle Latin carpentaria, a carpenter-shop, L. a carriage-maker's shop, properly feminine of carpentarius, pertaining to a carriage or cart: see carpenter.
 

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