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Joinery   /dʒˈɔɪnəri/   Listen
Joinery

noun
1.
Fine woodwork done by a joiner.
2.
The craft of a joiner.  Synonym: cabinetmaking.





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"Joinery" Quotes from Famous Books



... take interest, and children have this characteristic, that they force their knowledge upon the notice of their parents whenever they can. The boy who begins to learn house painting soon expresses the wish to paint his own home; if carpentry, he wishes to build a shed; if joinery, he wishes to make a table; and how often one notices a home where tidiness and order are due to the educated child, and where taste in furnishing is accounted for by the daughter's cultivated aesthetic taste. Children ...
— A Plea for the Criminal • James Leslie Allan Kayll


Words linked to "Joinery" :   carpentry, woodworking, woodwork


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