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carpents

carpents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of carpent.

Meaning of 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
    Synonyms:
    carpenter

Questions about carpents

What is carpents the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Carpents is the third-person singular simple present indicative of carpent.

Words near carpents in the dictionary

  1. carpentresses
  2. carpentries
  3. carpentry
  4. carpentry square
  5. carpentry squares
  6. carpents
  7. carper
  8. Carperby
  9. Carperby-cum-Thoresby
  10. carperidine
  11. carperitide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carpents (page history and authors); carpent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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