Definition of Carpentries

1. carpentry [n] - See also: carpentry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpentries

carpenter's hammer
carpenter's kit
carpenter's level
carpenter's mallet
carpenter's plane
carpenter's rule
carpenter's saw
carpenter's square
carpenter's squares
carpenter ant
carpenter ants
carpenter bee
carpentered
carpentering
carpenters
carpentries (current term)
carpentry
carper
carperidine
carpers
carpet-bomb
carpet bagger
carpet baggers
carpet beater
carpet beetle
carpet bomb
carpet bombed
carpet bombing
carpet bombs

Literary usage of Carpentries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Gothic Art in England by Edward Schröder Prior (1900)
"... St. Martin's in Leicester, Sparsholt in Rutlandshire, and at Kiddington and Adderbury in Oxfordshire, framed and carved carpentries of principal, ..."

2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... we have in abundance in our Circuit, ' and axes busy for carpentries of that kind. There are ' four entrenched knolls; 24 big batteries, ..."

3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... changed" by carpentries and draperies "into a vast Amphitheatre; the " slopes of it furnished with benches for the spectators, and, "at the four corners ..."

4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... storm-posts, the things we call Spanish Horse (chevaux-de-frise);—woods we have in abundance in our Circuit, and axes busy for carpentries of that kind. ..."

5. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... woods we have in abundance in our Circuit, and axes busy for carpentries of that kind. There are four intrenched knolls; 24 big batteries, ..."

6. History of Frederick the Second: Called Frederick the Great by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1871)
"Woods we have in abundance in our circuit, and axes for carpentries of that kind. There are four intrenched knolls; twenty-four big batteries capable of ..."

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