Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person who carves meat: A carver is someone whose role is to slice and serve meat, especially at a formal meal or gathering.
   • A sculptor: A carver is an artist who creates sculptures by cutting, shaping, or engraving materials like wood, stone, or ivory.
   • A person who makes decorative wooden panels: This refers to an artisan skilled in the craft of creating ornamental designs in wood.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • At the banquet, the carver expertly sliced the roast beef for the guests.
  • The museum featured works by a famous ivory carver from the 18th century.
  • The intricate designs on the church doors were the work of a skilled wood carver.

Advanced Usage

• "The Carver" as a proper noun: Can refer to a specific, often historically significant, artist or craftsman.
  • Grinling Gibbons is celebrated as the greatest wood carver of the English Baroque period.
• Used in compound job titles or descriptions.
  • He worked as a master carver in the shipbuilding industry, creating figureheads for vessels.

Variants and Related Words

• Carve (verb): To cut into a hard material to produce an object or design; to slice meat.
• Carving (noun): The action or skill of carving; an object or design produced by carving.
  • She admired the detailed carving on the antique chair.

Synonyms

• For a meat slicer: Server, slicer.
• For a sculptor: Sculptor, engraver, craftsman, artisan.

Related Phrases

• Carver's chair: A type of armchair, historically associated with the master of the house who would carve the meat.
• Carving knife: A large, sharp knife designed specifically for slicing meat.

Noun

1. someone who carves the meat
2. an artist who creates sculptures
3. makes decorative wooden panels
4. United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)