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The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M. Buchanan.

The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of workingin timber; carpentry.

To curve; to bend into a circular form. [Obs. except in carpentry and shipbuilding.] Shak.

orse, when passing from a walk into a trot, or a trot into a walk. -- Fox wedge (Mach. & Carpentry), a wedge for expanding the split end of a bolt, cotter, dowel, tenon, or other piece, to fasten the end in a hole or mortise and prevent withdrawal. The wedge abuts on the bottom of the hole and the piece is driven down…

Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

the first list of 1828. [Cant, Cambridge Univ., Eng.] C. A. Bristed. Fox wedge. (Mach. & Carpentry) See under Fox. -- Spherical wedge (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.

In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.