A worker who build or repairs wooden structures or their structural parts In addition to other work on the East Span project, carpenters build frames for concrete work and other structures
is from the Low Latin carpentarius, a maker of carpenta (two-wheeled carts and carriages) The carpentum was used for ladies; the carpentum funebre or carpentum pompaticum was a hearse There was also a carpentum (cart) for agricultural purposes There is no Latin word for our carpenter; the phrase faber lignarius is used by Cicero Our forefathers called a carpenter a smith or a wood-smith (French, charpentér )
n workman who builds and repairs wooden things, esp the wooden parts of buildings, ships, etc
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