carver (karver)

[ The master painters and the carvers came. Dryden. (c) Figuratively, one who makes, shapes, or molds, in any sense. Be his own carver , and cut out his way To find out right with wrong. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 3. The lids are ivy, grapes in clusters lurk Beneath the carving of the curious work. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Eclogues, iii. 59. 4. In coal - mining , nearly the same as cutting (which see). [Leicestershire, Eng.] - Carving IMG:content-3208.png:[blocks in formation]