Word Meanings - CARPENTERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

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• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• CARPENTER
  An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc. Syn. -- Carpenter, Joiner. The carpenter frames and puts together roofs, partitions, floors, and other structural parts of a building. The joiner Supplies stairs, doors
• TIMBERHEAD
  The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
• TIMBERLING
  A small tree.
• CARPENTRY
  1. The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings. 2. An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
• TIMBERED
  1. Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange. 2. Built; formed; contrived. Sir H. Wotton. 3. Massive, like timber. His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled. Spenser. 4. Covered
• TIMBERING
  The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.
• TIMBERWORK
  Work made of timbers.
• CARPENTERING
  The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.
• CLEAN-TIMBERED
  Well-propotioned; symmetrical. Shak.
• TOP-TIMBERS
  The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. R. H. Dana, Jr.
• INOCCUPATION
  Want of occupation.
• DISOCCUPATION
  The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
• HALF-TIMBERED
  Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.
• PREOCCUPATION
  1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.