CARPENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpenter mean? 

• CARPENTER (noun)
  The noun CARPENTER has 1 sense:

1. a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects

  Familiarity information: CARPENTER used as a noun is very rare.

• CARPENTER (verb)
  The verb CARPENTER has 1 sense:

1. work as a carpenter

  Familiarity information: CARPENTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("carpenter" is a kind of...):

woodman; woodsman; woodworker (makes things out of wood)

Instance hyponyms:

Joseph ((New Testament) husband of Mary and (in Christian belief) the foster father of Jesus)

Derivation:

carpenter (work as a carpenter)

• CARPENTER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work as a carpenter

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "carpenter" is one way to...):

work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

carpenter (a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects)

carpentry (the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood)

 Context examples 

Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

James Grant was a journeymen carpenter who did not always pay his bills and who owed Maria three dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The butler was awaiting my arrival; he had received by the same post as mine a registered letter of instruction, and had sent at once for a locksmith and a carpenter.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Chattering jays and loud wood-pigeons flapped thickly overhead, while ever and anon the measured tapping of Nature's carpenter, the great green woodpecker, sounded from each wayside grove.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hans Nelson, immigrant, Swede by birth and carpenter by occupation, had in him that Teutonic unrest that drives the race ever westward on its great adventure.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour. It’s as true as gospel, for I began as a ship’s carpenter.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whether he had been born a carpenter, or a coach-painter, any more than he had been born a bird?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I only wish Tom had known his own mind when the carpenters began, for there was the loss of half a day's work about those side-doors.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

One day he said to her: Listen, I have a good idea, there is our gossip the carpenter, he shall make us a wooden calf, and paint it brown, so that it looks like any other, and in time it will certainly get big and be a cow. the woman also liked the idea, and their gossip the carpenter cut and planed the calf, and painted it as it ought to be, and made it with its head hanging down as if it were eating.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

By the first post I got my directed envelope with a dirty scrap of paper enclosed, on which was written with a carpenter's pencil in a sprawling hand:— Sam Bloxam, Korkrans, 4, Poters Cort, Bartel Street, Walworth. Arsk for the depite.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)