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carver1|ˈkɑːvə(r)|
[f. carve v. + -er1.]
1. gen. One who carves or cuts.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 320 Clipperis and purse⁓kerveris. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xx. (1495) 125 Of the teeth some ben keruers. 1605Bacon Adv. Learning (1873) 56 A carver or a divider of cummin seed.
2. spec. One who carves wood, ivory, stone, etc.; a sculptor: most frequently (when not otherwise qualified) applied to one who carves in wood.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1041 Ne portreyour, ne kerver of ymages. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, xxii. §1 A Freemason..Tyler, Plommer, Glasier, Kerver nor Joyner. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 311 The painter or keruers craft. 1605Tryall Chev. iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 336 A cunning Carver had cut out thy shape..in white alabaster. 1754Dodsley Agric. ii. (R.) Smooth linden best obeys The carver's chissel. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 604 The carver, the gilder, and the paper-hanger. 1840Hood Kilmansegg, Death xvii, Its foreman, a carver and gilder.
†b. attrib. (A tree) used for carving.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 9 The carver holme, the maple seldom inly sound.
3. One who carves at table.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 435 Whom the kynges kerver hurte soore. a1450in Eng. Gilds (1870) 446 To bere his swerd & be his keruere tofore him. 1509–10Act 1 Hen. VIII, xiv, Hys Cuppe berers Carvours and Sewers. 1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy I. 16 Several carvers cut up all the meat at a side table. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4672/1 First Carver, and Brother to the Empress. Mod. An expert carver.
b. A carving knife. a pair of carvers: a carving knife and fork.
1840Thackeray Catherine ii, You had got the carver out of her hand.
c. [Distinguished from Carver2.] An armchair among a set of dining-chairs, usu. set at the head of the table as for the one who carves.
1927Daily Tel. 3 May 3/3 A set of Hepplewhite chairs and carver upholstered in pigskin. 1952J. Gloag Short Dict. Furniture 172 Carver chair... Another use of the term is to distinguish the arm chair or elbow chair in a set of dining-room chairs, used at the head of the table by the carver. 1978Morecambe Guardian 14 Mar. 9/8 Top selling lines..are dining room suites with a choice of table style..together with dining chairs, matching carver chairs and sideboards.
†4. fig. One who assigns any one his ‘portion’. † to be one's own carver: to take or choose for oneself at one's own discretion. Obs.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 55 In this poynte I meane not to be mine owne caruer. 1598― Moth. Bombie (Halliw.) Neither father nor mother, kith nor kinne shall bee her carver in a husband. 1583Babington Commandm. 343 That everie souldier should be his owne carver and take what he can get. 1614Raleigh Hist. World v. v. §7. II. 595 Plainly told them, that the Romans would be their owne Carvers, and take what they thought good. 1645Bp. Hall Contentation 39 Wee are ill carvers for our selves; hee that made us, knows vvhat is fit for us. a1714Abp. J. Sharp Serm. I. i. (R.) He himself, were he to be the carver of his fortunes..would chuse for himself. 1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. li. (ed. 2) 250 Peter..has..been the carver of his own fortune. |