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Adze
noun · 78% connection
A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Artificer
noun · 78% connection
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laborat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Auger
noun · 78% connection
A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Barrier
noun · 78% connection
A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Bench
noun · 78% connection
A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Bevile
noun · 78% connection
A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Bevilled
adjective · 78% connection
Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Bone
verb · 78% connection
To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Botch
noun · 78% connection
Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finish…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Builder
noun · 78% connection
One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Cabinetwork
noun · 78% connection
The art or occupation of working upon wooden furniture requiring nice workmanship; also, such furniture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Capacity
noun · 78% connection
Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Carpentry
noun · 78% connection
An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Chips
noun · 78% connection
A ship's carpenter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Chisel
noun · 78% connection
A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usuall…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Crew
noun · 78% connection
In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
Erg
noun · 78% connection
The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimete…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: occupation, work, carpenter, working, timber.
