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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Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Details: 36 and its neighbors on each side were built in the 1850s for James D. Sherwood, an investor who got his start as a local carpenter.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
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
Born in Chicago to a carpenter father and a mother who suffered from mental illness, Jones developed a love of music early on and took up the piano.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Details: 36 and its neighbors on each side were built in the 1850s for James D. Sherwood, an investor who got his start as a local carpenter.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
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 25 Nov. 2024.
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