car·pen·ter
ˈkär-pən-tər 
ˈkär-pᵊm-tər
: a worker who builds or repairs wooden structures or their structural parts
carpentered; carpentering
ˈkär-pən-t(ə-)riŋ
: to follow the trade of a carpenter
carpentered when he was young
1
: to make by or as if by carpentry
2
: to put together often in a mechanical manner
carpentered many television scripts
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Joan Morris, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
His family lived within 15 miles of each other, all skilled tradespeople: plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 9 June 2025
Pete Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
The drama is something that seems to be leaking from the very forms so elaborately carpentered to contain it.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 June 2017
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Noun
California does, however, have a few other types of ants including carpenter, pavement and little black ants.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
His family lived within 15 miles of each other, all skilled tradespeople: plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers.
—Megan Feringa, New York Times, 9 June 2025
Verb
Noma’s dining room, by contrast, is meticulously carpentered together, from the peaked ceiling to the bare floor, out of sanded oak and Douglas fir.
—Pete Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
The drama is something that seems to be leaking from the very forms so elaborately carpentered to contain it.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 June 2017
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“Carpenter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carpenter. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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