carpenternoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɑː.pɪn.tər/us/ˈkɑːr.pɪn.t̬ɚ/a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures
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Building: carpentry & joinery
- beading
- bevel
- bevelled
- cabinetmaker
- carpentry
- gimlet
- jigsaw
- joinery
- mitre
- mortice
- mortice lock
- panel
- plane
- sand
- sandpaper
- sawdust
- season
- shelve
- tenon
- veneer
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Examples from literature
- Ata Owoo was a carpenter who lived in the West African country of Ghana.
- Once the set designer creates the plan, artists and carpenters make different parts of the set.
- Stagehands and carpenters put the sets together on stage.
- The carpenter built a wooden chair for the set of a play.
- I could see the carpenters, whose hammers I had heard, at work upon the roof of the barn, now destined to do double duty as a stable and garage.
- Meanwhile, the carpenters hammered and the scenes rose.
- That shamed the masons and carpenters into giving their Saturday afternoons for repair work.
- The tools used by the carpenters, as appear from the representations on the monuments, were the axe, the adze, the hand-saw, the chisel, the drill, and the plane.
- When he became a young man, however, he had sense enough to choose the carpenter's trade, instead of the painter's art.