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CARPENTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carpenter" is a kind of...):
woodman; woodsman; woodworker (makes things out of wood)
Instance hyponyms:
Joseph ((New Testament) husband of Mary and (in Christian belief) the foster father of Jesus)
Derivation:
carpenter (work as a carpenter)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Work as a carpenter
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "carpenter" is one way to...):
work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
carpenter (a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects)
carpentry (the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood)
Context examples:
The voice replied, “I was safe, for my box was fastened to their ship; and the carpenter should immediately come and saw a hole in the cover, large enough to pull me out.”
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In a few minutes Mr. Bertram was called out of the room to satisfy some doubts of the carpenter; and being accompanied by Mr. Yates, and followed soon afterwards by Mr. Rushworth, Edmund almost immediately took the opportunity of saying, I cannot, before Mr. Yates, speak what I feel as to this play, without reflecting on his friends at Ecclesford; but I must now, my dear Maria, tell you, that I think it exceedingly unfit for private representation, and that I hope you will give it up.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
As I looked out of the coach window, and observed that an old house on Fish-street Hill, which had stood untouched by painter, carpenter, or bricklayer, for a century, had been pulled down in my absence; and that a neighbouring street, of time-honoured insalubrity and inconvenience, was being drained and widened; I half expected to find St. Paul's Cathedral looking older.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used; and the locksmith was near despair.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The carpenter came, and in a few minutes sawed a passage about four feet square, then let down a small ladder, upon which I mounted, and thence was taken into the ship in a very weak condition.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The business of finding a play that would suit everybody proved to be no trifle; and the carpenter had received his orders and taken his measurements, had suggested and removed at least two sets of difficulties, and having made the necessity of an enlargement of plan and expense fully evident, was already at work, while a play was still to seek.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I was at incredible pains in cutting down some of the largest timber-trees, for oars and masts, wherein I was, however, much assisted by his majesty’s ship-carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them, after I had done the rough work.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Something of a theatre we must have undoubtedly, but it will be on the simplest plan: a green curtain and a little carpenter's work, and that's all; and as the carpenter's work may be all done at home by Christopher Jackson himself, it will be too absurd to talk of expense; and as long as Jackson is employed, everything will be right with Sir Thomas.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He had to reinstate himself in all the wonted concerns of his Mansfield life: to see his steward and his bailiff; to examine and compute, and, in the intervals of business, to walk into his stables and his gardens, and nearest plantations; but active and methodical, he had not only done all this before he resumed his seat as master of the house at dinner, he had also set the carpenter to work in pulling down what had been so lately put up in the billiard-room, and given the scene-painter his dismissal long enough to justify the pleasing belief of his being then at least as far off as Northampton.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
