Carpenter
['kɑːp(ə)ntə] or ['kɑrpəntɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects.
(verb.) work as a carpenter.
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Definition
(n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
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Definition
n. a worker in timber as used in building houses ships &c.—v.i. to do the work of a carpenter.—ns. Car′penter-bee a bee that excavates its nest in wood; Car′pentry the trade or work of a carpenter
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest endeavors to raise your fortune, to the exclusion of selfish pastime or so-called recreation.
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Examples
- Finally I put a rope to my trunk, which was about the size of a carpenter's chest, and started to pull this from the baggage-car to the passenger-car. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At last, a carpenter in the city, Peter Van der Mey by name, undertook the adventure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A carpenter in London, and in some other places, is not supposed to last in his utmost vigour above eight years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A house-carpenter seems to exercise rather a nicer and a more ingenious trade than a mason. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There is the knowledge of the carpenter; but is that the sort of knowledge which gives a city the title of wise and good in counsel? Plato. The Republic.
- It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's carpenter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Whereas you couldn't be more occupied with your day's calculations and combinations than you habitually show yourself to be, if you were a carpenter. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Then carpenters, and smiths, and many other artisans, will be sharers in our little State, which is already beginning to grow? Plato. The Republic.
- Foreign artisans and servants do everything by couples: I believe it would take two Labassecourien carpenters to drive a nail. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Plato gave his account of knowledge on the basis of an analysis of the knowledge of cobblers, carpenters, players of musical instruments, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- 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. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Its reparation was esteemed a light task, carpenters' and glaziers' work alone being needed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Forms going up--carpenters coming down--lamps, glasses, harps. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Certainly not; that would only give a city the reputation of skill in carpentering. Plato. The Republic.
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