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
U.S. domestic architecture style of the 19th century. The houses executed in this phase of the Gothic Revival style display little awareness of the original Gothic approach, but rather an eclectic and naive use of superficial Gothic decorative motifs. Turrets, spires, and pointed arches were liberally applied, as was much decorative gingerbread, made possible by the invention of the scroll saw. Carpenter Gothic houses were built throughout the U.S., but surviving structures are found chiefly in the Northeast and Midwest
A worker who build or repairs wooden structures or their structural parts In addition to other work on the East Span project, carpenters build frames for concrete work and other structures
is from the Low Latin carpentarius, a maker of carpenta (two-wheeled carts and carriages) The carpentum was used for ladies; the carpentum funebre or carpentum pompaticum was a hearse There was also a carpentum (cart) for agricultural purposes There is no Latin word for our carpenter; the phrase faber lignarius is used by Cicero Our forefathers called a carpenter a smith or a wood-smith (French, charpentér )