Carpenter - Car-pen-ter  (kar' pen tar), noun.  1) a person who builds or repairs wooden structures, as houses, scaffolds, or shelving. -  v.i. 2) to do a carpenter's work.  ...
[1275-1325; ME < AF < LL carpentarius wainwright, equiv. to L carpent(um) two wheeled carriage ( < Celt; cf. OIr carpad chariot) + arius - ARY; see ER2]    FROM: "Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary" 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books. 

Carpenter - Woodwright in old England.  Such as a wood wright (wood worker).  See also Wain Wright (a  	wooden wagon maker)
Carpenter - From the French Norman  Carpentier (le Carpentier, le Charpentier) a worker of wood. 
Carpenter - Carpentier and Charpentier in French.  A worker in wood.
Carpenter - Zimmerman in German.  A worker in wood.
Carpenter - Carpenterio in Spainsh.  A worker in wood from the English word Carpenter.

Carpenter - French Sur-names 944 D46d - CARPENTIER ++, Forme norm.-picarde de Charpentier;
var. du Sud-Ouest et roussillonnase Carpentier.  Avecart. Le Carpentier.

!LETTER: Per Raymond George Carpenter, American Genealogist, The Carpenter and Related
Family Association: "My British Genealogy of the New England English Carpenter
Family has descent due to our three cross-crosslets Coat of Arms from Viscount
William (Carpenter surname) de Melune, a Norman Knight in the First Crusade,
1098 A.D., at the siege of Antioch, Syria.  He was "nicknamed, Carpenter, from
the weighty strokes of his BATTLE AXE" in battle because the axe and great
strength were associated with the carpenter's trade.  This family of Melun, France.

!BOOK: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - by Gibbons vol. 4, page 208:
"Earl of Melun slaughtered his opponents with a large axe, thus earning
himself the nickname of "The Carpenter."

!BOOK: Grand Dictionaire Universel DU XIX Siecle Paris 1873 Tome 10: (page 1488)
"Guillaume I. du nom, viscount de Melun, fut surnomme Charpentier, a cause
u'il ne se trouvoit point d'armes qui  pussent resister a l'effort de ses oups.
"La pesanteur des siennes le faisoit apprehender dans les  combats."
Guillaume I., of name, Viscount of Melun, was surnamed, Carpenter, because no
weapon (opponents weapons that is) could be found that could resist the power
his strikes. The heaviness of his (weapons) resulted in him being feared in
combats".  Carpenters must of, at the time, been among the most "well build"
people... "