joiner

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: join=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

joiner, n. 

•  One who, or that which, joins.  [1913 Webster]
•  One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc.

Syn. -- See Carpenter.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

joiner, n.
1 a person who makes furniture and light woodwork.
2 colloq. a person who readily joins societies etc.

Derivative

joinery n. (in sense 1).

Etymology

ME f. AF joignour, OF joigneor (as JOIN)

THESAURUS

joiner

Greek, affiliate, associate, belonger, bon vivant, brother, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, charter member, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, committeeman, comrade, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, dues-paying member, enlistee, enrollee, excellent companion, fellow, fraternity man, good company, good mixer, guildsman, honorary member, initiate, insider, life member, man-about-town, member, mixer, nightclub habitue, one of us, playboy, pleasant company, pledge, sister, social lion, socius, sorority girl, sorority woman