Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Carpentry

Carpentry , noun

[French charpenterie, Old French also carpenterie. See Carpenter.]

1.
The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.
2.
An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.