carpenter
noun
a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Then allow this gentleman who is carpentering away so pleasantly within the house, to do so to his heart's content, but don't let him leave it.
From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett