carpenter
noun
a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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He and Frank were carpentering out at the aviation camp.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Clarence Edgar Johnson