Definition of Carpentry

Carpentry

The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.

An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

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Carpentry Quotations

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
Harrison Ford

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.
John Ratzenberger

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
Alma Guillermoprieto

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
Adrian Edmondson

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
John Henry Carver

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Carpentry Translations

carpentry in French is menuiserie
carpentry in German is Zimmerhandwerk

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