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verb

Carve v. t. (past & past part. carved; pres. part. carving)

1.

To cut. (Obs.) "Or they will carven the shepherd's throat."

2.

To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. "Carved with figures strange and sweet."

3.

To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. "An angel carved in stone." "We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone."

4.

To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To carve a capon."

5.

To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. "My good blade carved the casques of men." "A million wrinkles carved his skin."

6.

To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. "Who could easily have carved themselves their own food."

7.

To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. "Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet."

To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "(Macbeth) with his brandished steel... carved out his passage." "Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown."

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"Carve out" Quotes from Famous Books

... carve out the inside. Pad your bench bearers and rest your hull upon them. A curved wood gouge with a fairly flat edge is the best tool. Get it nicely sharpened, and work all over the inside of hull until it is about 3/16 inch thick, the top edge being left ...

— Boys' Book of Model Boats • Raymond Francis Yates

... flock; and Oliver first copied these in clay, and then in alabaster. By degrees he learned to vary his patterns, and at last to make his clay models from fancies of his own,—some turning out failures, and others prettier than any of his wooden cups. These last he proceeded to carve out of alabaster. ...

— The Settlers at Home • Harriet Martineau

... discreditable prejudice against abridgments, especially of novels, and more especially against what are called condensations. But one may think that the simple knife, without any artful or artless aid of interpolated summaries, could carve out of La Princesse de Cleves, as it stands, a much shorter but fully intelligible presentation of its passionate, pitiful subject. A slight want of individual character may still be desiderated; it is hardly till Manon Lescaut that we get that, but it was not to be expected. ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... "fellowship of the mystery" which God meant, in the manifold wisdom that they know in heavenly places, when He ordained the passing over. We call it death; we make it death; a separation. We leave off there. We gather up the tools that loved ones drop, and use them to carve out, selfishly, our own pleasures; we let their life go, as if it were no matter to keep it up upon the earth. We turn our backs, and go our ways, and leave saints' ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... respected. Was he less honest? less brave? less independent? less scrupulous in his dealings with his fellowmen? To all these questions she was obliged to answer "No." And he was proud, too, and ambitious; ambitious to carve out a fortune with his own hands, beholden to neither man nor circumstances for the achievement. Certainly there was much that ...

— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett

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