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plural carpenters
A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures. examples
(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. examples
A two-wheeled carriage. examples
(zoology) A carpenter bee. quotations
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. quotations examples
Eleven names in Laver’s table (just over 6%) are of the “carpenter” type, a name for woodlice also recorded in Shropshire and Warwickshire. […] Apparently a Newfoundland word for woodlouse is “carpenter” or “cafner” (another is also “boat-builder”). These names clearly relate to the animals’ affinity to wood as will “carpenter’s flea”, “wood-pig”, “wood-bug”, “grampus wood-bug” and, of course “woodlouse”.
2015, A.D. Barber, “Vernacular names of woodlice with particular reference to Devonshire”, in Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group, page 58
third-person singular simple present carpenters, present participle carpentering, simple past and past participle carpentered
To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber. examples