shipcarving

English

Etymology

From ship +‎ carving.

Noun

shipcarving (countable and uncountable, plural shipcarvings)

  1. (nautical, sculpture, uncountable) The making of decorative wooden carvings for a ship, such as figureheads and catheads.
    • 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:
      The number of workshops working exclusively on shipcarving began to decline, but this did not immediately affect the quality of what they produced.
  2. (nautical, sculpture, uncountable) An individual carving of this kind.
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