carpenter

plural carpenters

1. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.

   Synonyms: joiner, chippy, timberwright, treewright, woodworker, woodwright

2. nauticalA 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. A two-wheeled carriage.
4. biologyA carpenter bee.

   The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.

   1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa, page 146

5. CanadaUKregionalA woodlouse.

   1 more example

   Eleven names in Laver’s table (just over 6%) are of the “carpenter” type, a name for woodlice also recorded in Shropshire and Warwickshire.[…] Apparently a Newfoundland word for woodlouse is “carpenter” or “cafner” (another is also “boat-builder”). These names clearly relate to the animals’ affinity to wood as will “carpenter’s flea”, “wood-pig”, “wood-bug”, “grampus wood-bug” and, of course “woodlouse”.

   2015, A.D. Barber, “Vernacular names of woodlice with particular reference to Devonshire”, in Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group, page 58

present singular third person carpenters · participle present carpentering · participle past carpentered · past carpentered

1. intransitivetransitiveTo work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.

   Synonyms: carpent

plural Carpenters

1. countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.

   Among the celebrities she considers part of her zillennial cohort are Zendaya and American singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter.

   2023 May 10, Terry Ward, “Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name”, in CNN

2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableSynonym of Long Island, Alabama.

      Synonyms: Long Island, Alabama

   2. countableuncountableA ghost town in Mesa County, Colorado.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.
   4. countableuncountableA township in Jasper County, Indiana.
   5. countableuncountableA minor city in Mitchell County, Iowa.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky.
   7. countableuncountableA township in Itasca County, Minnesota.
   8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Copiah County, Mississippi.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
   10. countableuncountableA former settlement in Grant County, New Mexico.
   11. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community including Carpenter Historic District in Wake County, North Carolina.
   12. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Rolette County, North Dakota.
   13. countableuncountableA township in Steele County, North Dakota.
   14. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
   15. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Roger Mills County and Custer County, Oklahoma.
   16. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Clark County, South Dakota.
   17. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Wilson County, Texas.
   18. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community and census-designated place in Laramie County, Wyoming.