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From: Patricia Patterson< >
Subject: Re: GENBRIT-D Digest V98
Date: 26 Jan 1998 09:50:53 -0800


PR>>> I assume your query to mean the definition of a joiner? Culling's
PR>>> Occupations pub. by FFHS says "Craftsman who works with wood." It's a
PR>>> carpenter.
PR>>

PR>>I am not sure you have that right. Carpenters, joiners and cabinet
PR>>makers all work with wood but they are on different skill levels. I
PR>>believe that carpenters are the bottom end of the scale and they do
PR>>the rough bits like house roofs, shuttering for concrete etc; joiners

The occupation list printed in Family Chronicals Magazine states:
JOINER or JOYNER: skilled carpenter.

The Internet Occupations list says: Craftsman who works with
wood.

The Collins English Dictionary says: a maker of furniture and
light woodwork.

Sounds like varying degrees of skill in the same trade.

/pat

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