carpenter
noun
a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
was carpentering
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past progressiveof carpenter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Juliet sat at needlework, Albert was carpentering an old wooden box and turning it into a cupboard; the younger ones were playing with some firewood, and building castles with it.
From Littlebourne Lock by Harrison, F. Bayford
So we all loaded back into the car and drove all day, back to the wet tent in a pasture about a half- mile from where Papa was carpentering.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar
