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carpenter

noun as in person who works with wood

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Davis is a bit like a backstage conductor, making sure that all of the individual teams — lighting, carpenters, stage hands and more — work as a unified whole so that everything that happens onstage appears seamless.

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But there’s also something personal at stake for Pages, who grew up in Cuba so poor his carpenter father made the bats he played with.

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On the busy avenues populated not by residents but by construction workers and carpenters laying the groundwork for a new Palisades.

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While he admits the work as a carpenter is not regular, he feels fishing has become "very difficult" because of the gas project.

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But Nashville being similar to where I’m from, which is Ithaca, where I worked as a carpenter, it reaffirmed that you can be a dirty carpenter, and that’s also kinda cool.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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