cabinetmakingn.
/ˈkabɪnᵻtˌmeɪkɪŋ/, /ˈkabn̩ᵻtˌmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkæb(ə)nətˌmeɪkɪŋ/ 1. The craft, art, or skill of a cabinetmaker; skilled joinery.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > [noun] > making furniture > specific
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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 92 And were Letter-Cutting brought to so common Practice as Joynery, Cabinet-making, or Mathematical Instrument-making, every young Beginner should then be taught by Rules, as they of these Trades are.
1700 Eng. Winding-sheet for E.-India Manufactors 4/1 They have already..brought all our Cabinet-making into contempt.
1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 81 The heart-wood of the Yew is..the finest of all native woods for purposes of cabinet-making and turnery-work.
1911 A. N. Lyons Cottage Pie xxviii. 252 If anybody do plumbing, but you cannot rightly call them a plumber; and if anybody do a bit at cabinet-making and joinery, but you cannot really call them a carpenter.., that be what they call a Bodger, sir!
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bar clamp, a frame consisting of a long bar with two adjustable clamping jaws that is used usu. in woodwork or cabinetmaking for holding large work.
2005 Woodworker May 106/1 Like the best of its predecessors, our highboy has a bonnet top... This is not a bent plywood gash-up or MDF piece—a material out of place in fine cabinetmaking except perhaps for template making.
2. The action or process of putting together a political cabinet. Cf. cabinet n. 8.
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1827 Standard (London) 14 Aug. We may pursue this department of cabinet-making into other divisions of the government.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 June 1/2 Hitches are inevitable whenever Cabinet-making is undertaken.
1994 Daily Tel. 30 Apr. 17/2 When all the votes are counted and Cabinet making begins, we may see a government with curious resemblances to the British National Government of 1931.
Compounds
General use as a modifier (in sense 1).
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1749 Inq. Rights of Free Subj. 26 Let him advance in Art still, and became a curious Workman in the Cabinet-making-way.
1761 Public Ledger 12 May 480/2 (advt.) A Person willing to enter into the Cabinet-making Business.
1826 Bangor (Maine) Reg. 15 June An extensive fire..commenced in Messrs. J. & C. Foster's cabinet-making shop.
1850 Börsen-Halle (Hamburg) 31 May (advt.) No more of this higher class cabinet making wood can possibly be offered for sale in Liverpool.
1896 N.-Y. Times 12 July ii. 9/3 Cabinetmaking tools then came into use, and boys were taught to make the simpler forms of carpenter joints.
1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 254 Fielded panel, a cabinet-making term that describes a panel with the central space raised so that it projects slightly beyond the surface of its frame.
1990 Woodworker July 719/1 In old cabinetmaking workshops there was generally hanging somewhere on the wall, a large mahogany or oak try square, used mainly for marking out large panels.
1993 D. Jones in J. M. Fladmark Heritage: Conservation, Interpr. & Enterprise xxvi. 328 Moving on from the brander back which was a late 18th Century pattern, to the early 19th Century, it can be seen that common regional chair types in the cabinet making tradition continue to flourish.
2012 @mwebst 7 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 15 Dec. 2021) Officially applied for the cabinetmaking course at Holland college!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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