different between carver vs carder

English

Etymology

From Middle English carver, karvere, kerver, kervere, equivalent to carve +? -er. Cognate with Scots kerver, carver, carvour (“carver”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??v?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??v?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)v?(?)
• Homophone: calver (Received Pronunciation)

Noun

carver (plural carvers)

1. Someone who carves.
2. (dated) A carving knife.
3. (dated) A butcher.
4. An armchair as part of a set of dining chairs (originally for the person who is to carve the meat).
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 215:

     She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones.

5. (skiing) A ski with curved edges, allowing smooth turns.

Derived terms

• Carver

Translations

Anagrams

• Craver, craver

English

Etymology

card +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
• Homophones: carter, Carter (in accents with flapping)

Noun

carder (plural carders)

1. A person employed to card wool.
2. A carding machine.
3. A criminal who steals information from credit cards.
4. (slang) A person who distributes tart cards.

Translations

Anagrams

• Crader, Redcar, red car

French

Etymology

carde +? -er

Verb

carder

1. to card (use a carding machine)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cardage

Further reading

• “carder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).