EGAVE

carpenter

About 5.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A two-wheeled carriage.
  4. noun A carpenter bee.
  5. noun A woodlouse.
  6. verb To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.

Similar words

carpentry woodworking joiner woodwork carver sculptor framing maker carp stanley

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Word family

carpentered carpentering carpenters

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