: the act, process, or occupation of working wood into a useful or desired form
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Noun
His favorite hobby was woodworking.
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Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
There will be rosemaling, woodworking and Norwegian knitting demonstrations.
—Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2022
Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Behind its rotating thirty-foot globe, retirees rode oversize tricycles and took up woodworking or the kazoo.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
For more woodworking power tools, check out our top picks for woodworking routers, wood planers, and cordless drills.
—Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
There will be rosemaling, woodworking and Norwegian knitting demonstrations.
—Anchorage Daily News, 23 Sep. 2022
Noun
Metzger ended up in Leeds in an ORT training school learning woodworking and eventually found work in a furniture factory outside Leeds in the country on the Harwood Estate, before moving to a radical Marxist commune in Bristol where Metzger found the politics too extreme.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Behind its rotating thirty-foot globe, retirees rode oversize tricycles and took up woodworking or the kazoo.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Woodworking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woodworking. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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