carpent

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to work as or like a carpenter; to construct in wood (rare)

   The old man could carpent a sturdy chair from scrap timber.

A rare back-formation from carpenter, from Old French carpentier, from Late Latin carpentārius ('carriage-maker'), from Latin carpentum ('two-wheeled carriage'), a word of Gaulish origin.

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