woodworking

[ woo d-wur-king ]

/ ˈwʊdˌwɜr kɪŋ /

the act or art of making things of wood.

pertaining to or used for shaping wood: woodworking tools.

Origin of woodworking

First recorded in 1870–75; wood¹ + working

With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood.

Joshua Foer: How I Write |Noah Charney |January 16, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing.

Joshua Foer: How I Write |Noah Charney |January 16, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
With woodworking, each step has to justify the one that comes after.

Joshua Foer: How I Write |Noah Charney |January 16, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The book is especially suited for use in connection with "Essentials of Woodworking" by the same author.

Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop |Harris W. Moore

A complete manual for teachers and organizers of woodworking classes.

A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products |F. B. Wright
Bruce was a woodworking teacher at the high school and later he moved to Santa Rosa, California to teach there.

The Biography of a Rabbit |Roy Benson
The boy in one woodworking class makes out an order for materials.

The New Education |Scott Nearing
The inference is that such a tool form was already a familiar one among the woodworking trades in the United States.

Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 |Peter C. Welsh

woodworking

/ (ˈwʊdˌwɜːkɪŋ) /

the process of working wood

of, relating to, or used in woodworking