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tradie
English
Etymology
From trade +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
tradie (plural tradies)
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A tradesman, a tradesperson.
- 2007, Catherine Deveny, It's Not My Fault They Print Them, Black Inc., page 175,
- This show is a thinly veiled advertorial posing as a competition between tradies to be crowned King Gee Jack of All Trades.
- 2011, Patrick Bright, The In$ider?s Guide to Renovating for Profit, Brolga Publishing, unnumbered page,
- As soon as you know the settlement date for the property, you need to phone all your tradies and book them in for the dates you've worked out in your timetable. When each tradie starts you?ll have to show up and brief them.
- 2007, Catherine Deveny, It's Not My Fault They Print Them, Black Inc., page 175,
Anagrams
- Atreid, airted, atride, tirade
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carpenter
English
Etymology
From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpent?rius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpent?rius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). More at car.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??.p?n.t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k??p?nt?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)p?nt?(?)
- Hyphenation: car?pen?ter
Noun
carpenter (plural carpenters)
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- (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.
- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
- 1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa (page 146)
- The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.
- 1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa (page 146)
- (Canada, Britain, regional) A woodlouse.
Synonyms
- (person skilled at carpentry): joiner, chippy
Related terms
- carpentry (noun)
- The Carpenter (jocular: Jesus Christ)
- carpent, carpenting (nonstandard)
Derived terms
- carpent
- carpentering
- carpenter ant
- carpenter bee
- carpenter's pencil
- carpenter's square
Translations
Verb
carpenter (third-person singular simple present carpenters, present participle carpentering, simple past and past participle carpentered)
- To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
- Synonym: (rare) carpent
Further reading
- carpenter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- carpenter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- carpenter at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
Noun
carpenter (plural carpenters)
- carpenter
Descendants
- English: carpenter
Old French
Noun
carpenter m (oblique plural carpenters, nominative singular carpenters, nominative plural carpenter)
- Alternative form of charpantier
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