kerver

Middle English

Alternative forms

• keruer, kervere, karvur, karvere, carvur, carver

Etymology

From kerven +‎ -er.

Noun

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, [...]

     [...] For in the land there was no skilled man,
     Who knows geometry or arithmetic,
     Nor painter, nor carver of images, [...]