carpentry

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The work or trade of a carpenter.
• noun Woodwork done by a carpenter.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The art of cutting, framing, and joining the timbers or woodwork of buildings and similar constructions by means of hand-tools.
• noun Carpenters' work; any work of the kind done by carpenters.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The art of cutting, framing, and joining timber, as in the construction of buildings.
• noun An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable The trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures; woodworking
• noun countable A carpenter's workshop.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood