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Carver   /kˈɑrvər/   Listen
noun
Carver  n.  
1.
One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." "The carver of his fortunes."
2.
One who carves or divides meat at table.
3.
A large knife for carving.





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"Carver" Quotes from Famous Books



... said: "Lay down, you useless hound!" and started across the cultivation!, heading for the grass-paddock in long, erratic jumps. Half-way across the cultivation it spotted a mob of other kangaroos, and took a firmer grip of the carver. ...
— On Our Selection • Steele Rudd
... waiter solves the difficulty by removing your share (with the whispered consolation that you are 'one of the family'), and placing it before the new-comer. When the joint, be it pork or venison, is brought in to be carved, let us hope that you stand well with the carver, or you will receive a Promethean helping of 'bones wrapped up in fat.' And the way in which a dish is whisked past you, after remaining with your neighbour till he can eat no more!—what free man would endure it, though he were as innocent of gall as any ...
— Works, V2 • Lucian of Samosata
... branch at its word and lopped it off the tree. A carver in the neighborhood engaged to make the figurehead. He was a tolerably good workman and had already carved several figureheads in what he intended for feminine shapes, and looking pretty much like those which we see nowadays stuck up under a vessel's bowsprit, with great staring eyes that never ...
— Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy - Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls • Various
... Carver Bossard, in recent numbers of Fly, brings out some curious and interesting legal points in connection with aviation, among which are ...
— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
... Mack Carver, substitute back on Grinnell University's varsity squad, stepped across the threshold of Coach Edward's office. He carried his one hundred and eighty-seven pounds easily and with an athletic swagger. But ...
— Interference and Other Football Stories • Harold M. Sherman


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