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Where teenagers learn that measuring twice still doesn't guarantee ten fingers twice.
means A workshop or school classroom equipped with tools and machines for cutting, shaping, and joining wood.
from A straightforward compound of 'wood' plus 'shop,' the latter from Old English 'sceoppa,' meaning a booth or small structure for trade or work. The word simply names the place by the material worked in it — no hidden story, just carpentry logic: wood + shop = where wood gets worked.
- origin
- industrial education movement, early 1900s america
- golden rule
- always cut away from your body
- smell test
- sawdust plus machine oil equals nostalgia
- first project
- usually a wobbly birdhouse, universally