carpenter

• assemble
• begin
• build
• coin
• combine
• conceive
• concoct
• confect
• constitute
• construct
• contrive
• create
• design
• devise
• erect
• establish
• fabricate
• fashion
• father
• forge
• found
• frame
• generate
• hammer
• handcraft
• imagine
• inaugurate
• initiate
• innovate
• institute
• invent
• jerry-build
• make
• make up
• manufacture
• mold
• organize
• originate
• piece
• prefabricate
• produce
• put up
• raise
• rear
• reassemble
• rebuild
• reconstruct
• redevelop
• reedify
• retrofit
• set up
• shape
• throw up
• unite

• blow up
• demolish
• demount
• destroy
• detach
• devastate
• disassemble
• disconnect
• disengage
• disjoin
• dismantle
• dismember
• disunite
• divide
• explode
• flatten
• knock down
• level
• pull down
• pulverize
• raze
• ruin
• ruinate
• separate
• shatter
• smash
• strike
• take down
• tear down
• wreck

• noun
  1. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
  2. 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.
  3. A two-wheeled carriage.
  4. A carpenter bee.
  5. A woodlouse.
• verb
  1. To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.

• The carpenter built a beautiful oak table by hand.
• He hired a skilled carpenter to renovate the old staircase.
• Her grandfather was a carpenter who specialized in custom cabinets.
• The carpenter measured the wood carefully before cutting.
• As a young carpenter, he dreamed of opening his own workshop.

fabricate

jerry-build

raise

make

handcraft

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