Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who carves wood.

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Examples

  • A monk collected all the bones, and a wood-carver was hired to assemble them in the church.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • A monk collected all the bones, and a wood-carver was hired to assemble them in the church.

    The Adults Alison Espach 2011

  • I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver.

    Belle Cameron Dokey 2008

  • I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver.

    Belle Cameron Dokey 2008

  • I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver.

    Belle Cameron Dokey 2008

  • A passionate wood-carver … His beliefs in art were that all subjects were comprised of one or more of the following shapes: "the egg, the round pebble and the blade of grass".

    The Story Of a Genius - Constantin Brancusi 2008

  • I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver.

    Belle Cameron Dokey 2008

  • Veit Stoss (1445/50-1533), Nuremburg's master wood-carver and sculptor, is represented with "The Mother of God" (1520), a beautifully preserved wooden piece in which a regal Mary is shown with a large, delicate crown and superbly carved drapery.

    Masters of the German Renaissance 2007

  • I’m more of an obsessive wood-carver with a single subject thus farmy father.

    Excerpt: The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat 2004

  • Silversmith, saddler, watchmaker, wood-carver, violinist, inventor, and painter—as well as the creator of the first set of enamel teeth ever made in America—this remarkably protean genius who had also done distinguished service in the Revolutionary War aspired to establish a great public institution dedicated to the cultivation of aesthetic taste and the diffusion of scientific knowledge.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

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