Definition of "ship-carpenter" []

• A shipwright; a carpenter who works at ship-building. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He was a ship-carpenter by trade and a cooper for The Mayflower, which was usually docked at Southampton."
• "The Baton Rogue is also on the east side of the M.ssisippi, and distant twenty-six leagues from New Orleans: it was formerly the grant of M. Artaguette d'Iron: it is there we see the famouse cypress-tree of which a ship-carpenter offered to make two pettyaugres, one of sixteen, the other of fourteen tons."
• "He then apprenticed himself to a ship-carpenter for four years, taking a trip down the coast now and then, and watching his chance for the next move."