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Uncommoncarpenter
The correct spelling is carpenter.
How to pronounce carpenter
/ˈkɑː.pən.tə/
nounIPA: /ˈkɑː.pən.tə/
Say it like: Car-pen-ter
The correct spelling is carpenter. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- 2.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.
- 3.A two-wheeled carriage.
- 4.A carpenter bee.
- 5.A woodlouse.
verb
- 1.To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
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