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carpenter
1[kahr-puhn-ter]
noun
a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
verb (used without object)
to do carpenter's work.
verb (used with object)
to make by carpentry.
to construct (a plot, scene, article, or the like) in a mechanical or unoriginal fashion.
Carpenter
2[kahr-puhn-ter]
noun
John Alden, 1876–1951, U.S. composer.
(Malcolm) Scott, 1925–2013, U.S. astronaut and oceanographer.
carpenter
1/ ˈɑːɪԳə /
noun
a person skilled in woodwork, esp in buildings, ships, etc
verb
(intr) to do the work of a carpenter
(tr) to make or fit together by or as if by carpentry
Carpenter
2/ ˈɑːɪԳə /
noun
John Alden. 1876–1951, US composer, who used jazz rhythms in orchestral music: his works include the ballet Skyscrapers (1926) and the orchestral suite Adventures in a Perambulator (1915)
Other 51Թ Forms
- uncarpentered adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of carpenter1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of carpenter1
Example Sentences
Pages’ father, Liban, a carpenter who had a job repairing wooden boats, helped make his son’s first bats by hand, using leftover lumber given to him by friends.
But it was for a funeral that villagers near Lake Victoria gathered last December, to bury a 30-year-old carpenter who was shot dead while celebrating Arsenal's victory over Manchester United.
"I work for myself as a carpenter, I do a good shift every week but I'm exhausted when I come home - I'm in bed by 7pm every night," he explained.
Taking standard crutch measurements from the internet, Qaradaya commissioned a local carpenter to create several prototypes for wooden crutches.
He earned his GED,, external and learned to be a carpenter and bricklayer, but in a pivotal moment for his life, he was introduced to boxing by a coach called Doc Broadus.
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