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join·er

(joi′nər)

1. A carpenter, especially a cabinetmaker.

2. Informal A person given to joining groups, organizations, or causes.

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joiner

(ˈdʒɔɪnə)

1. (Building) chiefly Brit a person trained and skilled in making finished woodwork, such as windows, doors, and stairs

2. a person or thing that joins

3. informal a person who joins many clubs, causes, etc

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

join•er

(ˈdʒɔɪ nər)

n.

1. a person or thing that joins.

2. a carpenter, esp. one who constructs doors, window sashes, paneling, and other permanent woodwork.

3. a person given to joining groups or organizations.

[1350–1400; Middle English joinour < Anglo-French joignour]

joiner

An independent merchant ship sailed to join a convoy. See also joiner convoy; joiner section.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun	1.	joiner - a person who likes to join groups fellow member, member - one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization); "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family"
	2.	joiner - a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood woodworker, woodman, woodsman - makes things out of wood

Translations

نَجّارنـَجَّارٌ

truhlář

bygningssnedkersnedker

Schreiner Tischler Bindeglied

κατασκευαστής ξύλινων κουφωμάτων

carpintero de obra

puuseppä

menuisiernavire ralliantmenuiserie

stolar

asztalos

húsgagna- og innréttingasmiîur

falegname

建具屋

소목장이

galdnieks

stolár

inredningssnickare

ผู้เข้าร่วม

doğramacı marangoz

thợ mộc

木匠细木工人

joiner

[ˈdʒɔɪnəʳ] N (= carpenter) → carpintero/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

joiner

[ˈdʒɔɪnə^r] n → menuisier/ière
He's a joiner → Il est menuisier.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

joiner

n → Tischler(in) m(f), → Schreiner(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

joiner

[ˈdʒɔɪnəʳ] n → falegname m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

joiner

(ˈdʒoinə) noun

a skilled worker in wood who puts doors, stairs etc into buildings.

ˈjoinery noun

the work of a joiner.

joiner

→ نـَجَّارٌ truhlář snedker Schreiner κατασκευαστής ξύλινων κουφωμάτων carpintero de obra puuseppä menuisier stolar falegname 建具屋 소목장이 schrijnwerker snekker stolarz marceneiro столяр inredningssnickare ผู้เข้าร่วม doğramacı thợ mộc 木匠

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The people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen, laborers, smiths, carpenters, joiners, fishermen, fowlers, with some few apothecaries, surgeons, cooks, and bakers.

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He had no theories about setting the world to rights, but he saw there was a great deal of damage done by building with ill-seasoned timber--by ignorant men in fine clothes making plans for outhouses and workshops and the like without knowing the bearings of things--by slovenly joiners' work, and by hasty contracts that could never be fulfilled without ruining somebody; and he resolved, for his part, to set his face against such doings.

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They were masons, carpenters, joiners, slaters, blacksmiths, and glaziers; and there was work enough to last them for a long time, for had they not their own houses to build when they had finished those for other people?

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I called you back to tell you that there will be a lot of workmen, joiners and all that sent down on board first thing to-morrow morning to start making alterations in the cabin.

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"Is the foreman of the joiners on the Nan-Shan outside?

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"We must send for John Joiner at once, with a saw."

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If Tom hath broken his arm, we will get a joiner to mend un again."

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Her majesty said, if I would contrive a boat, her own joiner should make it, and she would provide a place for me to sail in.

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A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.

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Nevertheless, it was conveyed away under cover of the night and committed to the care of a skilful joiner. He doctored our old friend so successfully, that, in the course of a few days, it made its appearance in the public room of the British Coffee Houses in King Street."

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Victim of her marriage with a debauched joiner, she was oppressed by the needs of many infant children.

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He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel.