carpentry, woodworking, woodwork
(noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood
Source: WordNet® 3.1
carpentry (countable and uncountable, plural carpentries)
(uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking.
(countable) A carpenter's workshop.
• carpenting
Source: Wiktionary
Car"pen*try, n. Etym: [F. charpenterie, OF. also carpenterie. See Carpenter.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
