Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
joinery. Carlyle , in Froude.
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Examples
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She and Clive together led him a lively time, as well as keeping him busy helping them to make boxes, build a boat, and several other joinering enterprises.
Monitress Merle Angela Brazil 1907
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"I'd back you to do anything in the joinering line," laughed Dick, who still came for lessons on Saturday mornings, and generally stayed to chat and help the gardeners, though he was yet debarred from any very violent exertions, greatly to his indignation.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907
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If he has it not, he had very much better take to joinering or carpentering, to clerking, or to the dispensation of goods over the retail counter.
Faces and Places 1884
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Your joinering performances are apt to be somewhat grubby and messy. "
A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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