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单词 graver
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gravern.

Brit. /ˈɡreɪvə/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪvər/
Forms: Also Middle English gravowre.
Etymology: < grave v.1 + -er suffix1. Compare French graveur (14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
1. One who digs or digs up (turf). Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > digging > digger
delverc888
grubbera1400
diggerc1400
graver1483
spitter1648
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > workers with other materials > [noun] > with peat or turf
turverc1440
graver1483
turf-cutter1819
turf-boy1905
1483 Cath. Angl. 163/2 A Graver, cespitator, cultor, fossor.
1610 Assessment Wages Norf. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898) XIII. 524 A graver of Flaggs & Turfes vd.
2. One who carves or engraves.
a. A sculptor.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptor or carver
imagerc1400
carverc1405
graver1430
cutter1572
scraper1591
insculptor1598
sculptor1634
sculptress1662
sculpturist1689
sculpturer1732
chiseller1883
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1494) ii. xv. h j b Callicrates a grauer moost notable Of white yuor..His hande his iye so iuste were and so stable Of an ampte to graue out the lykenesse.
c1430 Freemasonry 504 Gravers and ymage-makers.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 208/2 Gravowre, sculptor.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) iv. f. 7v Romulus..honoured greatly grauers in stone.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. viii. 42 Sonnes of Antherme the most renowned carver and graver of Images.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 564 A cutter and grauer in marble.
1628 A. Cowley Piramus & Thisbe xxiv Just like a Marble Statue did he stand Cut by some skilful Graver's artful hand.
b. = engraver n. 1. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [noun] > person
graver1398
graveressc1430
engraver1552
entailer1570
lithotomist1714
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. ix. (Tollem. Ms.) Grauers use þe peces þerof to signe and to þurle preciouse stones.
1483 Cath. Angl. 163/2 A Gravere (A. Graver of wode or metelle), celator, sculptor.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 16 A liuely grauer of seales.
1623 B. Jonson in W. Shakespeare Comedies, Hist. & Trag. sig. A1v Wherein the Grauer had a strife with Nature, to out-doo the life.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiv. 401 He had lately imploy'd a Graver to prepare a Great Seal.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. iv. 98 Cellini being rather a sculptor than a graver.
1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. ii. 49 The piety..of our early gravers, enchasers, and designers.
3. A tool.
a. A cutting or shaving tool of any kind.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun]
steelOE
edge-toola1375
graver1548
clipper1578
cutter1631
chipper1879
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Scobina, an instrument that bowiers vse to shaue their bowes with called a grauer.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 225 The Tool, which is commonly a Graver.
1714 J. Gay Fan i. 8 Some wear the File, and Some the Graver guide.
1836 G. Head Home Tour 182 As the cylinder revolved, the graver, or cutting tool was fixed.
b. A sculptor's chisel.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > equipment
chisela1616
gravera1637
puncheon1662
veiner1819
gradine1860
macaroni1867
macaroni tool1867
pointing machine1871
punch1875
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2535 in Wks. (1640) III What figure of a Body was Lysippus, ever able to forme with his Graver..?
c. An engraver's tool; a burin. (Now the principal use.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools
pouncer1552
graving tool1591
pounce1598
puncheon1659
burin1662
eschoppe1662
graver1662
needle1662
point1662
style1662
sculpter1680
scalper1688
small chisel1749
roulette1806
engraver1821
dry-point1837
scooper1837
stylet1853
tint-tool1869
diamond-point1874
spit-sticker1909
bull-sticker1933
1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 9 The Burin (for so they [sc. the French] tearm the Instrument which we [call] the Graver).
1763 H. Walpole Catal. Engravers (1765) 83 George White afterwards made use of the graver for forming the black spot in eyes, and sharpening the light.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 38 With a graver, or some finely pointed steel instrument, draw a line upon the plate.
1889 J. Hirst in Archaeol. Inst. Jrnl. No. 181. 29 Thick feathers delicately finished with a graver.
d. ‘An instrument used for turning iron after it has been roughed out by the heel-tool’ (Ogilvie).
e. ‘A Barber Chirurgeons Instrument for the taking Scales off from the Teeth’ (Phillips 1678).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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