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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Which a man who was really a carpenter made.
He said he knew he had failed in history and he was born to be a disappointment to his parents and he was going home on the morning train; and it would be easier to be a carpenter than a minister, anyhow.
A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense.
He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel.
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