woodwork

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Building: carpentry & joinery
beading
bevel
bevelled
cabinetmaker
carpenter
gimlet
intarsia
jigsaw
joinery
mitre
mortice
panel
plane
sand
sandpaper
sawdust
seasoned
shelve
tenon
woodwork

Examples from literature

Everyone kept his plantation under fence and men who were old but strong and who had some knowledge of carpentry were sent out to keep the fence in repair and often to build new ones. 
He tried faithfully not to slight his books, but there was no use pretending he did not enjoy his carpentry. 
The handling and care of tools, simple carpentry, printing, photography, the making of an outdoor gymnasium and a miniature theatre, are among the topics included. 
The more you see of Madam How's masonry and carpentry, the clumsier man's work will look to you. 
Then the idea of an escape occurred to me, and as I had some proficiency in carpentry, I decided to obtain tools by proposing to make some chairs for the jailer. 

carpentry | American Dictionary

carpentry
noun[ U ]
us/ˈkɑr·pən·tri/
the skill or trade of a carpenter, or the work done by a carpenter:
That staircase is a beautiful piece of carpentry.

Examples of carpentry

carpentry
These include the cattle and goats scheme, carpentry workshop and beekeeping.
They returned and squatted in a barn where the steward found him at work, presumably at his trade of carpentry.
The saw mill was expressly erected so as to 'get the better' of his competitors in the carpentry business.
Being above necessity, architecture was more than a mundane trade, like masonry or carpentry, and demanded professionals with taste and distinction.
There are, however, some services where labour was hired, especially in maize mills, tea rooms and carpentry shops.
However, subsequent field inspections showed that some healthy pine and oak trees were being felled for carpentry and charcoal use.
Whether described as 'whitewashing', 'painting' or 'rough casting' it meant reinstating the appearance following the inevitable damage done by the carpentry.
The most common types of such activities were knitting, the making and repairing of clothes (including making headwear), making artificial flowers, carpentry and photography.
After dropping out of school, he began a carpentry apprenticeship.
By the middle of the eighteenth century, books illustrating carpentry produced under him were being published and widely copied.
Two branches of the family had respectively seven and six successive generations present in their carpentry business.
He suddenly sees himself back in his childhood, playing in his father's carpentry workshop.
Domestic carpentry skills were kept alive, within the remnants of a system of apprenticeship.
Boys good at painting tended to spend time in 'hobbies such as carpentry', which could of course include painting.
Syntactic carpentry : an emergentist approach to syntax.
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