Definitions for joinery

joinery join·er·y

Spelling: [joi-nuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈdʒɔɪ nə ri/

Joinery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in joinery (eijnory).

Definitions for joinery

noun

  1. the craft or trade of a joiner.
  2. woodwork made by a joiner.

Origin of joinery

First recorded in 1670-80; joiner + -y3

Examples for joinery

I answered that the wood had swelled, and the joinery was imperfect.

Further, she has an exquisite piece of joinery to perform when her ruder labour is accomplished.

It is used in joinery, as in door-frames, but not in carpentry.

And I was in Japan—the Japan of cabinets and joinery, gracious folk and fair manners.

Dry, too, and almost ready to live in, and all the joinery of pitch pine.

Hand-Craft in wood is distinguished from carpentry or joinery in many important respects.

In this last division of furniture the work is that of joinery.

The whole apartment presents a finished specimen of joinery, with a tasteful display of ornamental carving.

In his youth he had been apprenticed to the joinery business, and he had drifted from his native Lancashire to London.

This word seems to have been used at Canterbury to denote any piece of joinery.

Word Value for joinery
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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