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woodworking

[ wood-wur-king ]

noun

  1. the act or art of making things of wood.


adjective

  1. pertaining to or used for shaping wood:

    woodworking tools.

woodworking

/ ˈwʊdˌwɜːkɪŋ /

noun

  1. the process of working wood


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or used in woodworking

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Word History and Origins

Origin of woodworking1

First recorded in 1870–75; wood 1 + working

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Example Sentences

It was by actually making the planter, not by watching five more YouTube videos, that I began to get a grasp of woodworking and gain confidence, as if slowly becoming conversational in a once foreign language.

Etsy has helped launch the careers of designers such as Ross and Carie Gauvin, a couple from Maine whose woodworking business grew 700% during the pandemic, thanks largely to the soaring popularity of their stunning floating shelves.

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A lot of energy was put into the couple’s woodworking business that developed from a shared love of do-it-yourself projects.

Ivan and Sergey have begun a woodworking and pet care business.

If you’re new to woodworking, there are tons of resources available to get you rolling.

With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood.

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing.

With woodworking, each step has to justify the one that comes after.

Bruce was a woodworking teacher at the high school and later he moved to Santa Rosa, California to teach there.

In one or other of its many and varied forms it may be classed as the most important joint in the general woodworking trade.

The book is especially suited for use in connection with "Essentials of Woodworking" by the same author.

The effect of this greater tangential shrinkage effects every phase of woodworking.

Was he the person who used these various woodworking pieces of equipment?

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