shipcarving

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noun

The making of decorative wooden carvings for a ship, such as figureheads and catheads.

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Meanings

nounshipcarving (countable and uncountable, plural shipcarvings)

plural shipcarvings

  1. uncountablesculpturenauticalThe 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. uncountablesculpturenauticalAn individual carving of this kind.

Origin

From ship + carving.

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APA

shipcarving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shipcarving

MLA

“shipcarving.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shipcarving. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shipcarving,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shipcarving.

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