cabinetmaker

[ kab-uh-nit-mey-ker ]

/ ˈkæb ə nɪtˌmeɪ kər /

a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.

Origin of cabinetmaker

First recorded in 1675–85; cabinet + maker

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars.

‘Top Gear’ Host Richard Hammond Invades America With New Show |Marlow Stern |April 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Marchildon has been earning her living as a cabinetmaker since her modeling career was put on hold.

Ananda Marchildon, ‘Too Fat’ Model, Wins Lawsuit |Nadette De Visser |March 7, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But Marchildon, who has now given up modeling to become a cabinetmaker, recently decided to fight back in court.

Dutch ‘Next Top Model’ Fired for Being Too Fat? |Nadette De Visser |February 9, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
If he loses it completely, he will indeed be a helpless burden to his family, as he is a cabinetmaker by trade.

War Days in Brittany |Elsie Deming Jarves

They had now come back to the drawing-room, and Roger's eye fell on an object brought home that morning by the cabinetmaker.

A Second Home |Honore de Balzac
At sixteen he was apprenticed to a distant relative, a cabinetmaker.

The Invention of the Sewing Machine |Grace Rogers Cooper
He was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in Middlebury, Vt., and then to another in Brandon, but soon abandoned this trade.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 |Various
The father was by trade a cabinetmaker, but both her parents are dead.

The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler |David Brewster