joiner(WOOD WORKER)
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Building: carpentry & joinery
beading
bevel
bevelled
cabinetmaker
carpentry
gimlet
intarsia
jigsaw
joinery
mitre
mortice
panel
plane
sand
sandpaper
sawdust
seasoned
shelve
tenon
woodwork

Examples from literature

Ata Owoo was a carpenter who lived in the West African country of Ghana. 
Once the set designer creates the plan, artists and carpenters make different parts of the set. 
Stagehands and carpenters put the sets together on stage. 
The carpenter built a wooden chair for the set of a play. 
I could see the carpenters, whose hammers I had heard, at work upon the roof of the barn, now destined to do double duty as a stable and garage. 
Meanwhile, the carpenters hammered and the scenes rose. 
That shamed the masons and carpenters into giving their Saturday afternoons for repair work. 
The tools used by the carpenters, as appear from the representations on the monuments, were the axe, the adze, the hand-saw, the chisel, the drill, and the plane. 
When he became a young man, however, he had sense enough to choose the carpenter's trade, instead of the painter's art. 

carpenter | American Dictionary

carpenter
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑr·pən·tər/
a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures

carpenter | Business English

carpenter
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkɑːpəntər/us
a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures:
A self-employed boat repairer and carpenter, he had difficulty getting a mortgage.

Examples of carpenter

carpenter
Each contract is then signed by the carpenter, with later contracts also being signed by witnesses.
I briefly toured with them as master carpenter and property master.
They were surprised at their level of success, particularly over the caretakers, and managed to win a week's holiday with pay for the board's carpenters.
This means that the carpenter started working when the foundations had already been completed more than a month earlier.
The hearer knows what airplanes are, what carpenter's tools are, and what planar surfaces are.
Their fathers' occupations, to give three examples, had been a construction worker, a carpenter and a caretaker.
However, a reference in a carpenter's bill, discussed below, leads us to think that there were other, more substantial dressing rooms.
The bared teeth of two workmen - a carpenter and a man carrying a bucket - signify their low station.
A good blacksmith or carpenter could also probably expect a better standard of living.
Continuities also exist at the level of individual trades, as carpenters, masons, shoemakers and drapers' assistants were prominent in both periods.
Various possibilities were explored, but it soon became apparent that the most promising involved working with local blacksmiths and carpenters to produce tools.
And with good reason, for those carpenters had been in constant conflict with employers for more than two years.
The military specifications were precise and engineering skills would be needed in conjunction with those of loggers, sawyers, carpenters, fitters, iron smiths, and painters.
Some of them may have worked on the castles as masons or carpenters.
At a more prosaic level, what were the instructions to carpenters to achieve the superb timber detail?
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Collocations withcarpenter

carpenter

These are words often used in combination with carpenter.

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carpenter ant
It is also the byproduct of certain animals, birds and insects which live in wood, such as the woodpecker and carpenterant.
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