kerver

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From kerven +‎ -er.

Noun

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kerver

  1. carver
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1897-1899:
      [...] For in the lond ther nas no crafty man,
      That geometrie or ars-metrik can,
      Ne purtreyour, ne kerver of images,
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      [...] For in the land there was no skilled man,
      Who knows geometry or arithmetic,
      Nor painter, nor carver of images, [...]