Definition of "carpenter" in English

noun

1. A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.

2. (nautical) 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. (zoology) A carpenter bee.

5. (Canada, British, regional) A woodlouse.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.