carpent

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carpent

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Back-formation from carpenter.

verb carpents · carpenting · carpented

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.
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@misc{carpent_2026,
  title = {carpent},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/carpent},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}