carpent

Verb

carpent (third-person singular simple present carpents, present participle carpenting, simple past and past participle carpented)

1. (nonstandard, rare) To do carpentry, or work on (something) as a carpenter.
   • But no, he looked out at us long. Then shut the Book and strode down the aisle past every half-filled pew. The ones you-know-who carpented – certainly not me. Cracking, they are. Like l told him they would.1978, DeKalb Literary Arts Journal, volumes 14-16, page 73
   • The next sentence, however, clarifies what Harville's employment actually is: He drew, he varnished, he carpented, he glued; he made toys for the children, he fashioned new netting-needles and pins with improvements; ...1998, Monica F. Cohen, Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 21

   Synonyms:

   carpenter