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shipcarving

shipcarving noun: the making of decorative wooden carvings for a ship, such as figureheads and catheads.

Noun

shipcarving (countable and uncountable, plural shipcarvings)

  1. (uncountable, sculpture) The making of decorative wooden carvings for a ship, such as figureheads and catheads.
    • The number of workshops working exclusively on shipcarving began to decline, but this did not immediately affect the quality of what they produced.2006 February, Richard Hunter, “The carver's art at the ship's prow: a superbly illustrated new book rescues the figurehead sculptor's legacy from the misnomer of 'folk art'.”, in Apollo
  2. (uncountable, sculpture) An individual carving of this kind.

Forms of shipcarving

pluralshipcarvings

Origin of shipcarving

From ship + carving.

Questions about shipcarving

What does shipcarving mean?
Shipcarving means the making of decorative wooden carvings for a ship, such as figureheads and catheads.
What part of speech is shipcarving?
Shipcarving is a noun.
What is the plural of shipcarving?
The plural of shipcarving is shipcarvings.

Words near shipcarving in the dictionary

  1. shipbuilders
  2. shipbuilding
  3. shipbuildings
  4. shipcarver
  5. shipcarvers
  6. shipcarving
  7. shipcarvings
  8. shipcraft
  9. Shipe
  10. shipentine
  11. shipentines

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