CARPENTER
carpenter
(noun) a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
carpenter
(verb) work as a carpenter
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Carpenter
An occupational surname derived from the trade name carpenter.
Etymology
Noun
carpenter (plural carpenters)
A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
(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.
A two-wheeled carriage.
(zoology) A carpenter bee.
(Canada, Britain, regional) A woodlouse.
Synonyms
• (person skilled at carpentry): joiner, chippy
Verb
carpenter (third-person singular simple present carpenters, present participle carpentering, simple past and past participle carpentered)
To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
Synonym: carpent (rare)
Source: Wiktionary
Car"pen*ter, n. Etym: [OF. carpentier, F. charpentier, LL. carpentarius, fr. L. carpentum wagon, carriage.]
Definition: An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
Syn.
РCarpenter, Joiner. The carpenter frames and puts together roofs, partitions, floors, and other structural parts of a building. The joiner Supplies stairs, doors shutters, mantelpieces, cupboards, and other parts necessary to finishing the building. In America the two trades are commonly united. Carpenter ant (Zo̦l.), any species of ant which gnaws galleries in the wood of trees and constructs its nests therein. They usually select dead or somewhat decayed wood. The common large American species is Formica Pennsylvanica.
РCarpenter bee (Zo̦l.), a large hymenopterous insect of the genus Xylocopa; -- so called because it constructs its nest by gnawing long galleries in sound timber. The common American species is Xylocopa Virginica.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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