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  Carver

  noun

  George Washington, 1864?–1943, U.S. botanist and chemist.
• carver
  carver

  noun

  a carving knife

Carver

American  

[kahr-ver] / ˈkɑr vər /

noun

1. George Washington, 1864?–1943, U.S. botanist and chemist.

2. John, 1575?–1621, Pilgrim leader: first governor of Plymouth Colony 1620–21.

3. Raymond, 1938–88, U.S. short-story writer and poet.

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Carver ¹ British  

/ ˈkɑːvə /

noun

1. George Washington. ?1864–1943, US agricultural chemist and botanist

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carver ² British  

/ ˈkɑːvə /

noun

1. a carving knife

2. (plural) a large matched knife and fork for carving meat

3. a chair with arms that forms part of a set of dining chairs

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Carver Scientific  

/ kär′vər /

1. American botanist and educator whose work was instrumental in improving the agricultural efficiency of the United States.

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“In one incident guards tried to remove a strike leader soon after the strike began,” Carver wrote.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

According to the complaint, Prabhakar had taught the story for nearly a decade without incident and used it in a unit on unsympathetic and unreliable narrators alongside works by Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Shannon Alsheimer said students in her daughter Haylie’s Carver, Mass., high school brag that “their mom got them a 504” before the SAT.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

The American writer, Raymond Carver, who survived alcoholism to write some of the most beautiful poems about grief, and happiness, left a short poem before he died from cancer, aged just 50.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025

All in all, most of my life at Carver is not as miserable as I'd imagined.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

In comparison, wood carver Zhang took a more practical view of his craft.

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

Bierton, 40, is a pumpkin carver who expects to carve more than 100 pumpkins this fall.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

In one part of the opulent, second-floor dining room, a carver wields a knife like a surgeon on the cured leg of an Iberian pig fed a diet of acorns.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023

Fabio Belloni, a stone carver at the Milan laboratory, said he had once worked on a single block on the facade of the Duomo for 18 months.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

A carver lifted cuts of each roast meat to put on trenchers before the two.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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