carpenter
see also: Carpenter
Pronunciation Noun
Carpenter
Proper noun
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see also: Carpenter
Pronunciation 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.
- carpentry
- The Carpenter (jocular: Jesus Christ)
- carpent, carpenting (nonstandard)
- French: menuisier, menuisière, charpentier, charpentière
- German: Zimmermann, Zimmerfrau (⚠ - chambermaid, not female carpenter), Zimmerer, Zimmerin, Schreiner, Schreinerin, Tischler, Tischlerin, Bauschreiner (Swiss German), Bauschreinerin, Bautischler, Bautischlerin
- Italian: carpentiere, falegname
- Portuguese: marceneiro, marceneira, carpinteiro, carpinteira
- Russian: пло́тник
- Spanish: carpintero, carpintera, ebanista
- Italian: maestro d'ascia
carpenter (carpenters, present participle carpentering; past and past participle carpentered)
- To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
Carpenter
Proper noun
- Surname derived from the trade name carpenter.
- French: Carpenter
- French: Charpentier
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