bush carpenter

noun

1. informal.
   a rough-and-ready unskilled workman

Example Sentences

Though simply an extemporized chandelier from the hand of a bush carpenter, it had its material so tastefully hid, by the same genius that had decorated the walls, that it answered the purpose admirably for which it was intended.

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"I may not be as big as you," he said, "but if I was the same shape, I'd go to a bush carpenter, and get him to trim me down with an adze."

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He was what is called a bush carpenter: i.e., a wandering carpenter, who travels from station to station, doing any little odd rough jobs wanted.

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A "bush" carpenter is a very admirable person, when he is not also a bush lawyer.

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Soon they got hold of a bush carpenter, and she was provided with occupation for a good many months.

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