carpenter vs raze

carpenter

noun
  • A carpenter bee. 

  • A two-wheeled carriage. 

  • A woodlouse. 

  • A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water. 

  • A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures. 

verb
  • To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber. 

raze

noun
  • A swinging fence in a watercourse to prevent cattle passing through. 

verb
  • To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate. 

  • To scrape as if with a razor. 

  • To demolish; to level to the ground. 

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