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carpenter

/ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/ verb C2
  1. To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber. (intransitive, transitive)

He/she/it carpenters · Past carpentered · Past participle carpentered · -ing form carpentering

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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.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 40 · B2
Which a man who was really a carpenter made.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 16 · C1
He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 69 · B2
It’s as true as gospel, for I began as a ship’s carpenter.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 4 · B2

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