ETYM Old Fren. carpentier, French charpentier, Late Lat. carpentarius, from Latin carpentum wagon, carriage.
A woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects.

To work as a carpenter.

(1948-) US director of horror and science-fiction films. He is notable for such films as Dark Star 1974 and Assault on Precinct 13 1976.
His subsequent films include the low-budget thriller Halloween 1978, The Fog 1979, The Thing 1982, Christine 1983 (adapted from a Stephen King story about a vindictive car), Starman 1984, They Live 1988, and Memoirs of an Invisible Man 1992. He composes his own film scores, which have often added to the atmosphere of menace that often haunts his movies.

(1844-1929) English socialist and writer who campaigned for such causes as sexual reform, women’s rights, and vegetarianism. He lived openly as a homosexual and made a plea for sexual toleration in Love’s Coming of Age 1896.
Carpenter was inspired by the writings of Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and William Morris. He abandoned the Church of England and resigned his post as tutor at Cambridge University 1874 to write and lecture. He campaigned against pollution and vivisection and tried to grow his own food. His liberal idealism influenced later writers, including E M Forster and D H Lawrence.
His books include The Simplification of Life 1884, Civilization: Its Cause and Cure 1889, and the long poem Towards Democracy 1883–1902.

City in Iowa (USA).