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| SYLLABICATION: | car�pen�ter |
| PRONUNCIATION: | � �k�r p n-tr |
| NOUN: | A skilled worker who makes, finishes, and repairs wooden objects and structures. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: car�pen�tered, car�pen�ter�ing, car�pen�ters
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To make, finish, or repair (wooden structures). | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To work as a carpenter. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin carpent rius (artifex), (maker) of a carriage, from carpentum, a two-wheeled carriage, of Celtic origin. See kers- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | carpen�try (-tr ) �NOUN
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