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carpenter Definition

car·pen·ter (kärpən tər)

noun

a workman who builds and repairs wooden things, esp. the wooden parts of buildings, ships, etc.

Etymology: ME & Anglo-Fr < LL carpentarius, carpenter, wagon maker < L carpentum, two-wheeled carriage, cart < Gaul

intransitive verb

to do a carpenter's work

transitive verb

to make or repair by or as if by carpentry
carpenter Synonyms

carpenter

n.

carpenter Usage Examples

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.
carpenter Quotes

   The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand; They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: 'If this were only cleared away,' They said,'it would be grand!'

—Dodgson