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Welsh
Carpenter.
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Muslim
Carpenter
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a dyer or seller of dye, from Middle English mad(d)er ‘madder’ (Old English mædere), a pink to red dye obtained from the roots of the madder plant.German and Dutch (Mader, Mäder) : occupational name for a reaper or mower, Middle High German mÄder, mæder, Middle Dutch mader.French (southwestern and southeastern) : metonymic occupational name for a carpenter.
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English : metronymic from the medieval female personal name Madde, a form of Maud (see Mould 1) or Magdalen (see Maudlin).James Madison (1751–1836), 4th President of the U.S. (1809–17), was born in VA, the son of a planter. He was descended from John Madison, a ship’s carpenter from Gloucester, England, who had settled in VA in about 1653.
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Shakespearean
A Midsummer Night's Dream' Quince, a carpenter, acts as Prologue in the play within the play.
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English (chiefly Berkshire)
English (chiefly Berkshire) : from Middle English planke ‘plank’ (Late Latin planca). It is not clear how this word was applied as a surname: it may be a topographic name for someone who lived near a plank bridge over a stream, a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, or a nickname for a thin person.North German : nickname for a cantankerous person, from Middle Low German plank ‘quarrel’, ‘discord’.North German : metonymic occupational name from Middle Low German plank ‘measure for liquids’.South German : topographic name from Middle High German plank ‘plank’, ‘palisade’.South German : nickname for a fair-haired person, from a variant of Middle High German blanc ‘light’, ‘shining’.
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Czechoslovakian
Carpenter.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure, Middle English sparre.German : metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, from Middle Low German spar ‘beam’, ‘rafter’.
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Tamil
A carpenter, Another name of the divine architect Vishvakarma
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English
English : occupational nickname for a carpenter or woodcutter, from Middle English chip(pe) ‘small piece of sawn or cut wood’.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived on a small plot of land, from late Old English plot.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a fence maker or carpenter, from Slavic ‘fence’ (Polish płot, Russian plot). Compare Plotnik.
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Welsh
Carpenter.
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English : from Old English bord ‘board’, ‘plank’, ‘table’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter or a topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish tesler ‘carpenter’. Compare Tesler.German : variant of Teschner.English : from an agent derivative of Old English tǣsel ‘teasel’, hence an occupational name for someone whose job was to brush the surface of newly-woven cloth or to card wood preparatory to spinning, using the dry seed-heads of teasels (a kind of thistle).
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Saher or Seir. This is probably a Norman introduction of the Continental Germanic personal name Sigiheri, composed of the elements sigi ‘victory’ + heri ‘army’. However, it could also represent a Middle English survival of an unrecorded Old English name, SÇ£here, composed of the elements sÇ£ ‘sea’ + here ‘army’.English : occupational name, from Middle English saghier (see Sawyer) or Old French seieor.English : occupational name for a professional reciter, from an agent derivative of Middle English say(en), sey(en) ‘to say’.English : from a reduced form of Middle English assayer, an agent derivative of assay ‘trial’, ‘test’, Old French essay (from Late Latin exagium, a derivative of exagminÄre ‘to weigh’), hence an occupational name for an assayer of metals or a taster of food.English : occupational name for a maker or seller of say, a type of cloth, from Middle English say + the agent suffix -er. See also Say.Welsh : occupational name from Welsh saer ‘carpenter’ or from saer maen ‘stonecutter’, i.e. mason.French : occupational name for a reaper or mower, from an agent derivative of Old French seer ‘to cut’ (Latin secare).Dutch : occupational name for a weaver of serge, from an agent derivative of saai ‘serge’.Dutch : occupational name from zaaier ‘sower’.
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English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : occupational name for a carpenter or a topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage (see Board).
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Biblical
A carpenter.
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English
English : patronymic from a reduced form of Philip.The Phipps family, which holds the titles of marquess of Normanby and earl of Mulgrave, are descended from Constantine Phipps (1656–1723), who was lord chancellor of Ireland. A cousin with a different background, Sir William Phip(p)s (1651–95), was born in ME, where his parents had emigrated. Originally a ship’s carpenter, he rose to become royal governor of MA.
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Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish tesler ‘carpenter’.English : variant of Tessler.German : variant of Tescher.
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English
English : occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).Translation of German Zimmermann, French Charpentier, Italian Carpentieri, or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.
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An assemblage of pieces of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.
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One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
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A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
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A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
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Doing chance work or add jobs; as, a jobbing carpenter.
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A mason's or a carpenter's square or rule.
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To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.
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In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
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A ship's carpenter.
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The occupation or work of a carpenter; the act of working in timber; carpentry.
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Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
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An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.
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That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason.
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Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
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An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
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A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter. See Carpenter bee, under Carpenter.
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An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
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An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.
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The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.