carpenter

Meanings

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.

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

1. A surname originating as an occupation derived from the trade name carpenter.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. Synonym of Long Island, Alabama.
4. A ghost town in Mesa County, Colorado.
5. An unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.
6. A township in Jasper County, Indiana.
7. A minor city in Mitchell County, Iowa.
8. An unincorporated community in Whitley County, Kentucky.
9. A township in Itasca County, Minnesota.
10. An unincorporated community in Copiah County, Mississippi.
11. An unincorporated community in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.
12. A former settlement in Grant County, New Mexico.

Etymology

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”).