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Carver

//ˈkɑɹvɚ// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
  3. 3
    A city in Carver County, Minnesota, United States.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
  5. 5
    A neighbourhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States.
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  1. 6
    A former unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who carves; an artist who produces carvings.
  2. 2
    someone who carves the meat wordnet
  3. 3
    A carving knife. dated
  4. 4
    an artist who creates sculptures wordnet
  5. 5
    A butcher. dated
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  1. 6
    makes decorative wooden panels wordnet
  2. 7
    An armchair as part of a set of dining chairs (originally for the person who is to carve the meat).

    "She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones."

  3. 8
    A ski with curved edges, allowing smooth turns.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English carver, karvere, kerver, kervere, equivalent to carve + -er. Cognate with Scots kerver, carver, carvour (“carver”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English Carver, Kerver, Kervor, Kervour, Kervoure, Kervere, from Middle English carver, kervere (“carver, wood-cutter, sculptor”). More at carver.

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