JOINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does joiner mean? 

• JOINER (noun)
  The noun JOINER has 2 senses:

1. a person who likes to join groups

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

  Familiarity information: JOINER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who likes to join groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("joiner" is a kind of...):

fellow member; member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization))

Derivation:

join (become part of; become a member of a group or organization)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("joiner" is a kind of...):

woodman; woodsman; woodworker (makes things out of wood)

 Context examples 

Her majesty said, if I would contrive a boat, her own joiner should make it, and she would provide a place for me to sail in.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The queen’s joiner had contrived in one of Glumdalclitch’s rooms, a kind of wooden machine five-and-twenty feet high, formed like a standing ladder; the steps were each fifty feet long.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She ordered the joiner to make a wooden trough of three hundred feet long, fifty broad, and eight deep; which, being well pitched, to prevent leaking, was placed on the floor, along the wall, in an outer room of the palace.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was a collection of needles and pins, from a foot to half a yard long; four wasp stings, like joiner’s tacks; some combings of the queen’s hair; a gold ring, which one day she made me a present of, in a most obliging manner, taking it from her little finger, and throwing it over my head like a collar.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

On the roof of my closet, not directly over the middle of the hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to give me air in hot weather, as I slept; which hole I shut at pleasure with a board that drew backward and forward through a groove.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)