carpenter

Converse of object

• employ: The men were chiefly ship's carpenters employed at the Union Company's Dock.

Adjective modifier

• skilled: In others, it can be a loosely used term to describe a skilled carpenter.
• qualified: Working Site Foreman A first class qualified carpenter is required to take charge of a residental refurbishment on a large house in Hampstead.
• experienced: On the other hand, an experienced carpenter doesn't build a house using a Swiss Army knife.
• local: Tom is supposed to have murdered the local carpenter by chopping his head off.

Modifies a noun

• ant: Swarming is not the only means for carpenter ants to produce new nests.
• bee: In the last few years the large carpenter bee has turned up in our country.
• shop: We would never have let Him spend His time in a carpenter shop in an obscure town in Galilee.

Noun used with modifier

• apprentice: John at 16 had already left home, and was an apprentice carpenter with Margaret Wyatt's building firm in St Giles ' Street.
• master: Steve, master carpenter, caught by the camera.
• ship: He took part in the battle of Jutland and as can be seen from the photo was a ships carpenter & diver.
• village: He served as an apprentice to the village carpenter for seven years.
• estate: Tradition has it that Talbot had his estate carpenter make his first cameras.

Possessives

• son: Edward Richard George Heath was a carpenter's son from Broadstairs in Kent.
• shop: What was done in the carpenter's shop can be done in the engineer's shop too.
• plane: Case History John was badly injured at work when a carpenter's plane cut deep into his hand.
• workshop: We see the child in the carpenter's workshop.

Possessives

• ship: Then get me the ship's carpenter without delay, Hardy.

Preposition: by

• trade: Dave, a carpenter by trade, also received a substantial award for future loss of earnings.