Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who carves wood.
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Examples
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A monk collected all the bones, and a wood-carver was hired to assemble them in the church.
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A monk collected all the bones, and a wood-carver was hired to assemble them in the church.
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I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver.
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I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver.
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I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver.
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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".
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I have what Papa calls quick hands, the hands of a true wood-carver.
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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.
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Im more of an obsessive wood-carver with a single subject thus farmy father.
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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.
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