n. & v.
n. a person skilled in woodwork, esp. of a structural kind (cf. JOINER).
v. 1 intr. do carpentry. 2 tr. make by means of carpentry. 3 tr. (often foll. by together) construct; fit together. carpenter ant any large ant of the genus Camponotus, boring into wood to nest. carpenter bee any of various solitary bees, which bore into wood.
[ ME & AF; OF carpentier f. LL carpentarius f. carpentum wagon f. Gaulish ]