Carpenter

Quick meaning: Carpenter is a noun meaning A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.

Meaning

A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.

More Meanings

1. A two-wheeled carriage.
2. (zoology) A carpenter bee.
3. (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
5. (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.

Example Sentences

The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.

Eleven names in Laver’s table (just over 6%) are of the “carpenter” type, a name for woodlice also recorded in Shropshire and Warwickshire.[…] Apparently a Newfoundland word for woodlouse is “carpenter” or “cafner” (another is also “boat-builder”). These names clearly relate to the animals’ affinity to wood as will “carpenter’s flea”, “wood-pig”, “wood-bug”, “grampus wood-bug” and, of course “woodlouse”.

Word Forms

• carpenters
• carpentering
• carpentered

Synonyms for carpenter

Depending on context, synonyms include joiner, chippy, timberwright, treewright, woodworker, carpent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include carpentry, woodworking, joiner, woodwork, carver, sculptor.

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