carpenting

carpenting

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

carpenting (countable and uncountable, plural carpentings)

1. (rare, nonstandard) The work or skill of a carpenter, carpentry.
   • 1983, D. H. Lawrence, ‎Andrew Robertson, ‎James T. Boulton, The White Peacock, page 237:

     We climbed the ladder into the loft that was strewn with farming implements and with carpenting tools.

   • 1989, Educational and Psychological Interactions - Issues 93-99, page 60:

     He had not always been a day labourer but learnt carpenting skills from his father who was also a carpenter.

   • 2011, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought:

     If a carpenter and a cobbler were to exchange trades, Plato complains, the result would be poor carpenting and cobbling […]

Noun

carpenting (plural carpentings)

1. Misspelling of carpeting.