carpenter

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  • (UK) IPA: /'kɑ:(ɹ).pən.tə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /"kA:(r).p@n.t@(r)/

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Singular
carpenter

Plural
carpenters

carpenter (plural carpenters)

  1. A person skilled at carpentry.
  2. (nautical) a senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water

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