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woodcarver
English
Etymology
wood +? carver
Noun
woodcarver (plural woodcarvers)
- a person who is skilled at woodcarving
Related terms
- wood carving
Translations
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carpenter
English
Etymology
From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpent?rius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpent?rius (“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”). More at car.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??.p?n.t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k??p?nt?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)p?nt?(?)
- Hyphenation: car?pen?ter
Noun
carpenter (plural carpenters)
- 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.
- 1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa (page 146)
- The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.
- 1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa (page 146)
- (Canada, Britain, regional) A woodlouse.
Synonyms
- (person skilled at carpentry): joiner, chippy
Related terms
- carpentry (noun)
- The Carpenter (jocular: Jesus Christ)
- carpent, carpenting (nonstandard)
Derived terms
- carpent
- carpentering
- carpenter ant
- carpenter bee
- carpenter's pencil
- carpenter's square
Translations
Verb
carpenter (third-person singular simple present carpenters, present participle carpentering, simple past and past participle carpentered)
- To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
- Synonym: (rare) carpent
Further reading
- carpenter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- carpenter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- carpenter at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
Noun
carpenter (plural carpenters)
- carpenter
Descendants
- English: carpenter
Old French
Noun
carpenter m (oblique plural carpenters, nominative singular carpenters, nominative plural carpenter)
- Alternative form of charpantier
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