carpenter
/ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/ noun C1- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- 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.
- A carpenter bee.
Plural carpenters
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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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