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.

– Carpenter, 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 (Zoöl.), 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.

– Carpenter bee (Zoöl.), 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