Caver vs Carver - What's the difference?
caver | carver |
(colloquial) A person who explores caves; a spelunker.
(mining, obsolete) One who works the tailings of a mine to extract small pieces of marketable ore.
Someone who carves.
(dated) A carving knife.
(dated) A butcher.
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.