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carpenter

[kahr-puhn-ter] / ˈkɑr pən tər /


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His father, Noel Ernest Hord, was a carpenter as well as a pastor.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The court heard the self-employed carpenter and joiner, who had served in the military before an injury cut his career short, had struggled with his mental health.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

His father was a carpenter helping build minesweepers at Terminal Island for the Navy.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 2026

Sprague co-hosted “Run My Renovation” for the DIY Network and was a carpenter on “Trading Spaces.”

From Salon Feb. 20, 2026

The carpenter took apart the wheelhouse from the ship and rebuilt it at Ocean Camp for a galley, and the larger “hot potato can,” as the stove was called, was installed inside.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

She believes that because they're only automating the structure of the building, the business model isn't threatening to carpenters.

From BBC May 11, 2026

The construction and installation of offshore wind turbines requires the expertise of skilled electrical workers, pipe fitters, welders, pile drivers, iron workers, machinists and carpenters.

From Salon May 9, 2026

That’s led to a 30% drop in employment from a late-2022 peak for actors, carpenters, costumers and the hundreds of other showbiz professions, according to Labor Department data.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

The production also hired more than 100 New Zealand workers for every U.S. crew member they brought in, employing local electricians, construction workers, caterers and carpenters, Landau wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2025

The carpenters first assembled each individual truss on the ground.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

Mines, of course, are highly constructed, carpentered environments—exactly the kind of environment that should produce a large illusion, according to the theory.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2025

Two farmers down the street asked to get married there last fall; guests ate at tables Sarver carpentered and danced late into the night beneath the barn’s vaulted ceiling and wooden beams.

From Washington Times Jun. 25, 2016

It’s open at the bottom, and I saw several people direct puzzled glances at its roughly carpentered interior.

From The New Yorker Jun. 15, 2015

The latter are big quasi-octagonal panels that might have been carpentered for some hieratic medieval interior.

From The Guardian Jul. 6, 2011

Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

He was a dab hand at carpentering, doctoring, shipbuilding and grape growing.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2022

His upper body is hefty, his hands coarse from years of carpentering.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2020

For 23 years, English Novelist Phyllis Bentley has been carpentering a literary chronicle of her native Yorkshire.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell




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