Join′er-y.
As distinguished from carpentry, the art of framing the finishing work of houses; doors, windows, shutters, blinds, cupboards; hand-railing of stairs, balconies, and galleries; mantel-pieces (if of wood), the construction of permanent fittings, and the covering of all rough timber. The carpenter is supposed to use the axe, adze, chisel, and saw, and has to make and place the wallplates, joists, and other floor-timbers, floors, staircase, the woodwork of the roofs, wooden partitions, and those portions of the frames of windows, doors, and skylights which are built into place. |
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