Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A skilled worker who makes, finishes, and repairs wooden objects and structures.
- v. To make, finish, or repair (wooden structures).
- v. To work as a carpenter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An artificer who works in timber; one who executes by hand the woodwork of houses, ships, or similar constructions. The occupations of carpenter and joiner are often combined. See joiner.
- n. An officer of a ship, whose duty it is to keep under supervision and maintain in order the frame of the ship and all the wooden fittings about her.
- n. a set of men employed under the carpenter. See 2.
- To do carpenters' work; practise carpentry.
- n. In entomology, same as Carpenterant or carpenter-bee.
Wiktionary
- n. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- n. nautical A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- n. A two-wheeled carriage
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
- v. work as a carpenter
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman carpentier, from Old Northern French (compare Old French charpantier, whence modern French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius ("a carpenter"), Latin carpentārius ("a wagon-maker, carriage-maker"), from Latin carpentum ("a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart"), probably of Celtic origin. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin carpentārius (artifex), (maker) of a carriage, from carpentum, a two-wheeled carriage, of Celtic origin; see kers- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Getting a straight answer out of the carpenter is an exercise in futility.”
“After all, if my house is damaged, I call a carpenter whose craft is wood.”
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“I called the carpenter, got up all the old chests, and with them and some spars we floated ourselves alongside, and only just in time.”
“I called the carpenter and asked him if he could do anything to make the boat more seaworthy.”
“Years passed and Occasion's money was coming to an end; so he called a carpenter and told him to cut up the fig-tree and make him a bottle out of it.”
“Then," said I, turning to the boatswain, "when you call the carpenter to-morrow morning, at the end of the middle watch, please give me a call also; for, never yet having sighted the island, I should like to be on deck when it heaves into view, and get a good look at it.”
“There was no use lying there and pounding her till she sank; so I called the carpenter, got up all the old chests, and with them and some spars we floated ourselves alongside, and only just in time.”
“The Jews, I say, had no doubt who Jesus said that He was; that He meant them to understand, once and for all, that He whom they called the carpenter's son of Nazareth, was the”
“Otherwise, he could have hired or called a carpenter to repair his leaking roof, rather than attend to the problem by himself?”
“Jimmy Carter is better known as a carpenter than he is president.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘carpenter’.
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museum words
words from work
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Carp
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
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ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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occupations
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Last Names That Are Professions
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fletcher, chandler, goldsmith, carpenter, cook, baker, draper, smith, mason, carter, cooper, mercer and 35 more...
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Scriptie: Master and Commander
Nice ambient words from the movie. (With apologies to Patrick O'Brian.) Aaaah, life at sea...aboard a hulk of the British navy in 1805...
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If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
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My Blue Jeans
denim, blue, jeans, vintage, rigid, used, levi's, stonewash, low-rise, hip-huggers, flare, bell-bottoms and 15 more...
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List A
sorority, tantalize, untimely, deem, to wit, pliable, deteriorate, fortnight, Immaculate, susurration, bushed, stray and 56 more...
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I made this!
People who make stuff.
milliner, jeweler, silversmith, cobbler, draper, goldsmith, locksmith, carpenter, joiner, baker, stonemason, wheelwright and 43 more...
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Christmas Pageant Chapter Five
Vocabulary for Chapter Five of the Best Christmas Pageant Ever
myrrh, stable, retire, honor, sly, antenna, bureau, vengeance, ancestor, villian, horrible, carpenter
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Dictation words
Dictation Word list
suddenly, plumber, transport, discipline, leaking, stethoscope, railway, fiercely, aeroplane, travelling, electrician, thieves and 49 more...
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The Miller's Tale
cheesemonger, fishmonger, mercer, milliner, cobbler, sailor, cooper, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, jewler and 34 more...
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New Words
New Words - Building my own vocabulary
brownfield, greenfield, behalf, pet peeve, lead time, mock, proxy, craftsman, cliff, Nimble, Awkward, craftsmanship and 85 more...
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