carpenter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person whose job is making and repairing wooden things

   The carpenter built a beautiful oak table for our dining room.

2. 2
   verb

   To work as a carpenter, making things from wood

   Although it's not my job, I like to carpenter at the weekends.

From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car. Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).

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