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noun
1.
a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
verb (used without object)
2.
to do carpenter's work.
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verb (used with object)
3.
to make by carpentry.
4.
to construct (a plot, scene, article, or the like) in a mechanical or unoriginal fashion.
Example Sentences
- Carpenter ants nest in wood and can be destructive to buildings.
- There were a couple of other sailors still in the brig, which was set up in the carpenter shop.
- He was fundamentally a carpenter although he taught industrial arts at a university.
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John Alden, 1876–1951, U.S. composer.
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Word Origin & History
carpenter
early 14c. (attested from 1121 as a surname), from O.N.Fr. carpentier (O.Fr. charpentier), from L.L. (artifex) carpentarius "wagon (maker)," from L. carpentum "two-wheeled carriage, cart," from Gaul., from O.Celt. *carpentom (cf. O.Ir. carpat, Gael. carbad "carriage"), probably related to Gaul. karros
EXPAND(see car). Replaced O.E. treowwyrhta. First record of carpenter bee is from 1844.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Carpenter definition
an artificer in stone, iron, and copper, as well as in wood (2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Chr. 14:1; Mark 6:3). The tools used by carpenters are mentioned in 1 Sam. 13:19, 20; Judg. 4:21; Isa. 10:15; 44:13. It was said of our Lord, "Is not this the carpenter's son?" (Matt. 13:55); also, "Is not this the carpenter?" (Mark 6:3). Every Jew, even the rabbis, learned some handicraft: Paul was a tentmaker. "In the cities the carpenters would be Greeks, and skilled workmen; the carpenter of a provincial village could only have held a very humble position, and secured a very moderate competence."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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