Definition of "carpenters" []

• Plural form of carpenter. (noun)

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• "Thereupon they called the carpenters out on strike."
• "The George Bushes have been framed-by Houston carpenters, that is, scrambling to finish the former First Family's $500,000 new digs before they return from their ritual summer retreat to Kennebunkport, Maine, in early October."
• "He then called the carpenters, to know of them if they had any large saws that would cut through the body; and they told him they had no saws that were long enough, nor could men work into such a monstrous old stump in a great while; but that they would go to work with it with their axes, and undertake to cut it down in two days, and stock up the root of it in two more."