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What is the noun for carpentries?

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carpenter
  1. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  2. (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
  3. A two-wheeled carriage
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He was a carpenter and joiner by trade and served in the army during World War II.”
carpentry
  1. (uncountable) The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking
  2. (countable) A carpenter's workshop.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He taught them the rudiments of carpentry and construction as they put up a unit for poultry production.”
      “No mention was made of gopherwood, nor how they expect that this was done with crude hand tools and carpentry.”
      “There seemed to be quite a bit of construction, some plumbing, carpentry, and certainly a good deal of blood, sweat and tears.”
carpentress
  1. (rare) A female carpenter.
carpentering
  1. carpentry
  2. Examples:
    1. “I've had a go at carpentering today and fixed the upstairs loo door that was very tight to close.”
      “The pigs use the harness-room as a headquarters where they study blacksmithing, carpentering and so on from books they find in the farmhouse.”
      “When your carpentering is completed, the whole case must be stained to your taste.”
carpentresses
  1. plural of carpentress
carpenters
  1. plural of carpenter
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Despite the weather, the ship's two carpenters were busy and by the 26th they were able to replace the jib boom.”
      “She said the workmen, who residents thought were carpenters and joiners, have also been doing plumbing and electrical work.”
      “From lawyers to carpenters, every Greenlander hunts seal as a crucial source of nutrition.”
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