[f. prec.]
intr. To do carpenter’s work. trans. To make by carpentry; to do carpenter’s work; to put together mechanically.
c. 1815. Jane Austen, Persuas. (1833), I. xi. 301. He drew, he varnished, he carpentered.
1862. Sat. Rev., 7 Dec., 582. The man who ploughs or carpenters sees a satisfactory fruit of his labours.
Hence Carpentered ppl. a., Carpentering vbl. sb. (also attrib.).
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. IV. iii. (D.). The Salle des Menus is all new carpentered.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, liii. Here he took to gardening, planting, fishing, carpentering.
1840. Thackeray, Catherine, vii. He succeeded to … the carpentering business.
1884. W. G. Wills, in Pall Mall Gaz., 28 July, 4/1. A playwright may take a month guessing how his proposed character would think, speak, and act, and he would only produce a carpentered thing at last.
1884. Black, Jud. Shaks., xxviii. She even tried her hand at carpentering.
