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shipcarvings

shipcarvings is the plural of shipcarving.

Meaning of shipcarving

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.

Questions about shipcarvings

What is shipcarvings the plural of?
Shipcarvings is the plural of shipcarving.

Words near shipcarvings in the dictionary

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

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