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Auger :: Auger (n.) 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 both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..

Capacity :: Capacity (n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter..

Trade :: Trade (v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician..

Carpentering :: Carpentering (n.) The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry.

Yeoman :: Yeoman (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores..

Adze :: Adze (n.) 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 away the surface of wood..

Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..

Square :: Square (n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc..

Fit :: Fit (v. t.) To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc..

Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..

Bevile :: Bevile (n.) A chief broken or opening like a carpenter's bevel.

Norma :: Norma (n.) A mason's or a carpenter's square or rule.

Xylocopa :: Xylocopa (n.) A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter. See Carpenter bee, under Carpenter..

Chips :: Chips (n.) A ship's carpenter.

Crew :: Crew (n.) 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..

Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..

Builder :: Builder (n.) One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason..

Bench :: Bench (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench..

Bevilled :: Bevilled (a.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

Jobbing :: "Jobbing (a.) Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter..

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