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carpenter

noun

  1. person who performs carpentry
  2. type of stagehand
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verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑː.pən.tə/ / /ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/ / /ˈkɑɹpəndɚ/

name

Etymology: From carpenter, from Latin carpentarius.

  1. A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.

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noun

Etymology: From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car. Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).

  1. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  2. 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.
  3. A two-wheeled carriage.
  4. A carpenter bee.

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

  5. A woodlouse.

    “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”.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car. Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).

  1. To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.