carving knife

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   a large knife used to carve cooked meat

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Questions about carving knife

What does carving knife mean?

carving knife means "a large knife used to carve cooked meat".

Is carving knife a common word?

carving knife is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.