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carpenting

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Carpenting (noun) means the job or skill of making and fixing things out of wood.

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The job or skill of making and fixing things out of wood.
"He had not always been a day labourer but learnt carpenting skills from his father who was also a carpenter." — Educational and Psychological Interactions - Issues 93-99 (1989)
"We climbed the ladder into the loft that was strewn with farming implements and with carpenting tools." — D. H. Lawrence, Andrew Robertson (1983)
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Etymology

Formed from carpent(er) or carpent(ry) plus -ing.

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"carpenting" (noun) means the job or skill of making and fixing things out of wood.
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