∙ 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. nautical
∙ A two-wheeled carriage
Verb
∙ to work as a carpenter
Carpenter
Proper noun
∙ An occupational surname derived from the trade name carpenter.
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