carpenter
/ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/ verb C2- To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
He/she/it carpenters · Past carpentered · Past participle carpentered · -ing form carpentering
Verb forms
- Base form
- carpenter
- He/she/it
- carpenters
- Past
- carpentered
- Past participle
- carpentered
- -ing form
- carpentering
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A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense.
Which a man who was really a carpenter made.
He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel.
It’s as true as gospel, for I began as a ship’s carpenter.”
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