carpenter
IPA: kˈɑrpʌntɝ
noun
- 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.
- A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.
- A number of places in the United States:
- Synonym of Long Island, Alabama.
- A ghost town in Mesa County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.
- A township in Jasper County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Mitchell County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky.
- A township in Itasca County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Copiah County, Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
- A former settlement in Grant County, New Mexico.
- An unincorporated community including Carpenter Historic District in Wake County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Rolette County, North Dakota.
- A township in Steele County, North Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Roger Mills County and Custer County, Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Wilson County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Laramie County, Wyoming.
verb
- To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
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Examples of "carpenter" in Sentences
- The carpenter sells redwood.
- This is whittled by the carpenter.
- The carpenter rived logs into pieces.
- Paul Carpenter is the protagonist of the book.
- He too was of the family of Joseph the carpenter.
- The carpenter chopped poplar with an eletronic ax.
- The Cardinals signed Carpenter prior to the season.
- Carpenter was unperturbed by hostility of this kind.
- Carpenter was buried in the crypt underneath the altar.
- The occupation of carpenter is distinct from carpentry.