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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

charpenterie

, OF. also

carpenterie

. See

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.

Noun.

The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, in the construction of buildings; divided into house-carpentry and ship-carpentry.