furnituremaking
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The making of furniture, on either a craft or mass production basis; the business includes woodworking and (in some cases) upholstering.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Furnituremaking was one of the most universal of colonial enterprises. Not an industry susceptible to supervision from England, it was carried on domestically in small shops by no more than a handful of craftsmen at any one time."
- "By 1810 the federal census recorded a profusion of furnituremaking, leather manufacture, tool- and implement-making, woodenware production, metalworking, hatmaking, clockmaking, brewing, distilling, boot- and shoemaking, and a variety of other occupations in rural areas […]"
- "The unidentified compiler of this account book may have been John Hewitt, a furnituremaker from Savannah, Georgia. Accounts relate to furnituremaking and carpentry. There are drawings of furniture, including a bookcase and table."