"Are the tools without, which the carpenter puts forth his hands to, or are they and all the carpentry within himself; and would he not smile at the notion that chest or house is more than he?"
Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters traditionally worked with natural wood and did rougher work such as framing, but today many other materials are also used and sometimes the finer trades of cabinetm
"One was a 17th-century cottage complete with low ceilings, cut down doorways that you had to stoop to pass through...- there have been cases where people have died after clocking their heads so frequently in old cottages - and I was told it was part of the character."
Carpentry"He talks of wood: it is some carpenter."
Carpentry"The carpenter dresses his plank—the tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp."
Carpentry"Sure if they cannot cut, it may be said His saws are toothless, and his hatchets lead."
Carpentry"A carpenters known by his chips."
Carpentry"Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What dost thou with thy best apparel on?"
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