carver
nounUS /ˈkɑɹvɚ/ · UK /ˈkɑːvə/
Etymology From Middle English carver, karvere, kerver, kervere, equivalent to carve + -er. Cognate with Scots kerver, carver, carvour (“carver”).
1
Someone who carves; an artist who produces carvings.
2
Dated A carving knife.
3
Dated A butcher.
4
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.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 215:
- Derived terms
- Carver, runecarver, woodcarver