means The craft of shaping wood into objects—furniture, tools, joinery, decoration—by cutting, carving, joining, and finishing it.

from A plain compound of English's oldest building blocks: "wood," from Old English "wudu" (a forest or the timber it yields), and "working," from "weorc," effort or labor. Both are deep Germanic words, with cousins across the old northern tongues, going back to a time when working wood wasn't a hobby but how you got a roof, a bowl, and a boat. The pairing is exactly what it sounds like—wood, worked—and English never felt the need to dress it up.