carpenter

UK /ˈkɑː.pən.tə/ US /ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/
noun 5name 5verb 1

Definitions

noun

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 maki

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

1

To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.

name

1

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

Among the celebrities she considers part of her zillennial cohort are Zendaya and American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter.

2

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