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Definition of Carpenters

1. carpenter [v] - See also: carpenter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpenters

Literary usage of Carpenters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1907)
"I. This agreement made this seventh day of February, 1901, by and between the Carpenters' and Builders' Association of Chicago, and the Master Carpenters' ..."

2. Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the Olden Time: In the Olden by John Fanning Watson (1857)
"I write this (says he) from the celebrated Carpenters' Hall, a structure that will ever be deemed sacred while rational liberty is cherished on earth. ..."

3. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Carnegie Institution of Washington, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Eugene Allen Gilmore (1910)
"At a meeting of the Journeymen House Carpenters' Association of the City ... 19th, it was unanimously RESOLVED, that a National Convention of Carpenters be ..."

4. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"Seal of the Cot- ration of Carpenters of St. Trond (Belgium) —From an Impression ... Token of the Corporation of Carpenters of Antwerp. tion of Joiners of ..."

5. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1873)
"The inked line used by carpenters» for striking a straight line. ... The ink pot used by carpenters. SUMI-YA, a. A shop where ink or charcoal is sold. ..."

6. Historic Buildings of America as Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton (1906)
"Carpenters' HALL BENSON J. LOSSING ON Monday morning I visited Carpenters' Hall, the building in which the first Continental Congress held its brief session ..."

7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"In 1909 the Master Carpenters, coerced by the practical necessities of the ... It is found that most of the journeymen carpenters in Manhattan and part of ..."

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