uncarpentered
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + carpentered.
Adjective
[edit]uncarpentered (not comparable)
- Not carpentered.
- 2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), page 319:
- It was […] not unusual for these shelves, which had to be improvised at short order, to be uncarpentered constructs variously and ingeniously propped, tied, glued and hanging off stone walls whose last dignity was to refuse to be screwed.