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Definition of Carpenter
Carpenter

An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.

Related Definitions:
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Carpenter Quotations

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Lyndon B. Johnson

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Desiderius Erasmus

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
John Leguizamo

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
Jack Vance

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
Dirk Benedict

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.
David Cronenberg

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
Pam Grier

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
Donald Pleasence

Carpenter Translations

carpenter in Dutch is timmerman
carpenter in French is charpentier
carpenter in German is Schreiner, Zimmermann
carpenter in Latin is lignarius
carpenter in Norwegian is snekker
carpenter in Portuguese is carpinteiro
carpenter in Spanish is carpintero
carpenter in Swedish is snickare


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