A person who makes and repairs wooden objects and structures.
‘Tom Searles worked as a carpenter repairing the inside of the wooden mills and stayed for seventeen years.’
‘I once gave a contract to a local carpenter for some repairs on my house.’
‘His estimated cost for repairs seemed high, so I hired a carpenter at about half the price.’
‘You don't need to be a master carpenter, but some basic carpentry skills are required.’
‘The skilled carpenters and joiners enjoyed a sense of solidarity that quickly turned to truculence if they felt slighted and led to constant collective difficulties with their employers.’
‘I started life as an apprentice carpenter and joiner, and I always remember my first job application being turned down because my marks in chemistry were not high.’
‘It was the third successive year that she had been hailed as the world's best on the sport's greatest stage, a far cry from her days as a carpenter and joiner.’
‘If there is a single power tool that is universally accepted as a necessity by carpenters everywhere, it would be the circular saw.’
‘He worked for many years with wood, both as a carpenter and doing fine wood-working.’
‘This was built over a period of 40 days by a 300 strong force of labourers, carpenters, joiners and artists.’
‘Apprenticeships available for youngsters include stonemasonry; bricklaying; carpenters and joiners and roof-slaters and tilers.’
‘‘There is a huge shortage of carpenters and joiners in Scotland,’ he said.’
‘She said the workmen, who residents thought were carpenters and joiners, have also been doing plumbing and electrical work.’
‘Having finished his apprenticeship as a carpenter and joiner, Don went to officer cadet school at Portsea, becoming a second lieutenant.’
‘Ron left school at 14 to become a carpenter and joiner.’
‘After serving with the Royal Corps of Signals in 1945, Mr Brock became an apprentice carpenter and joiner.’
‘He was a carpenter and joiner by trade and served in the army during World War II.’
‘Early unions followed the British model of craft-based associations among printers, tailors, cordwainers, cabinet-makers, shipwrights, carpenters, and stonemasons.’
‘One house is constructed by professional carpenters; another by relatives.’
‘Working with steel requires different tools and skills, so there is a big learning curve for carpenters.’
‘Lysaght resurrected these boards and carpentered them into simple structures: a bridge, a wishing well, a coach and tree planters.’
‘The wooden boxes were carpentered together, and even the fabricated metal pieces were made relatively roughly.’
1.1no objectDo the work of a carpenter.
‘she carpenters and goes on archaeological digs’
‘I've had a go at carpentering today and fixed the upstairs loo door that was very tight to close.’
‘Larry left every day with his lunchbox to rejoin his mates on the construction sites, or carpentered for the neighbours.’
‘The pigs use the harness-room as a headquarters where they study blacksmithing, carpentering and so on from books they find in the farmhouse.’
‘He himself could carpenter, bank, farm and ranch.’
‘Wood, if carefully chosen, carpentered, and prepared, makes an excellent support on which to paint.’
Origin
Middle English from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French carpentier, charpentier, from late Latin carpentarius (artifex) ‘carriage (maker)’, from carpentum ‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin; related to car.
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