carpenter
noun
a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
carpentered
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past participleof carpenter.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof carpenter.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
carpenternouna person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
Example Sentences
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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
For Christmas, he’d given her a table he had carpentered himself, and Karen was going to insist on returning it.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
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
Rough stairs carpentered out of two by tens leading down into the darkness.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
