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Arpentator :: Arpentator (n.) The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor..

Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..

Barrier :: Barrier (n.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy..

Rebate :: Rebate (n.) An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood..

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to..

Hone :: Hone (v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor..

Strap :: Strap (n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop..

Bench :: Bench (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench..

Strop :: Strop (v. t.) To draw over, or rub upon, a strop with a view to sharpen; as, to strop a razor..

Broach :: Broach (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers..

Ironbark Tree :: Ironbark tree () The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood..

Carpentry :: Carpentry (n.) An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter..

Adze :: Adze (n.) A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood..

Quill :: Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill..

Yeoman :: Yeoman (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores..

Pickedness :: Pickedness (n.) The state of being sharpened; pointedness.

Arpen :: Arpen (n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English..

Knife-edge :: Knife-edge (n.) A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction..

Trestle :: Trestle (n.) A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like..

Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires..

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