joiner

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a person who likes to join groups

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a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood

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So it happened that by the time John Joiner had got the plank up--there was nobody under the floor except the rolling-pin and Tom Kitten in a very dirty dumpling!
But there was a strong smell of rats; and John Joiner spent the rest of the morning sniffing and whining, and wagging his tail, and going round and round with his head in the hole like a gimlet.
John Joiner smelt the pudding; but he regretted that he had not time to stay to dinner, because he had just finished making a wheel-barrow for Miss Potter, and she had ordered two hen-coops.
Most unwilling was his testimony, and given with many tears; but he admitted that two years since, when residing at York, he was suddenly afflicted with a sore disease, while labouring for Isaac the rich Jew, in his vocation of a joiner; that he had been unable to stir from his bed until the remedies applied by Rebecca's directions, and especially a warming and spicy-smelling balsam, had in some degree restored him to the use of his limbs.
"To a joiner for window frames, bedstead, hollow stool, and other things, twenty livres, two sols parisis."
The pugilist's own background presented an elaborate scheme of oak and tiles, with inglenooks green from the joiner, and a china cupboard with leaded panes behind his bullet head.
Macfarlane added: 'This is a great opportunity for time-served joiners to earn top rates while building a career with true prospects.
Being the youngest apprentice, once a week I had to go to the Coop in South Bank and collect an allocation of sugar and tea for the joiners. I understood food was still on ration and these items were in short supply, so being in industry they were given special dispensation to have an extra supply of these essential items.
The Joiners Arms, on Wansbeck Street, Morpeth, will continue to operate as normal after it was snapped up by local businessmen, who have not been named, in a deal which safeguards 10 jobs.
Apprentice joiners Ryan Sedgeworth and Declan Nisbet were fortunate to be hired by Graham Marshall & Son.
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THE building firm behind a large Saltburn housing development is looking for bricklayers and joiners as work gathers pace.