carpenting

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

"We climbed the ladder into the loft that was strewn with farming implements and with carpenting tools."
"He had not always been a day labourer but learnt carpenting skills from his father who was also a carpenter."
"If a carpenter and a cobbler were to exchange trades, Plato complains, the result would be poor carpenting and cobbling […]"

From carpent(er), carpent(ry) + -ing.

carpentings (plural)

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