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Carve   /kɑrv/   Listen
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."


Carve  v. i.  
1.
To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
2.
To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.


noun
Carve  n.  A carucate. (Obs.)





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"Carve" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a superior class, three of them from Virginia and two from Maryland. Their history was that of many others of their countrymen. Three of them had studied the law, one divinity, and the other medicine. Having no opening for the exercise of their profession at home, they had gone westward, to carve a fortune in the new States; but there every thing was in such a state of anarchy that they could not earn their subsistence; they removed farther west, until they entered Texas, "a country sprung up but yesterday, and where an immense wealth can be ...
— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat
... the dreams of court favour thou hast nourished," said Blount, "and despite all thy boasted art and ambition, Devonshire will see thee shine a true younger brother, fit to sit low at the board, carve turn about with the chaplain, look that the hounds be fed, and see the squire's girths ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott
... if that deed were not foul enough, he caused the old priest to carve—being skilful with the chisel—that vile distortion of his dead friend's face out of a huge boulder lying by, and then murdered him too for the Ruby's sake, and tumbled their bodies into the trough together. Such was Amos Trenoweth. Are you proud ...
— Dead Man's Rock • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Plucking some large leaves, he arranged them on the ground before the party, to serve the double purpose of table-cloth and plates; then, taking the duck up by the end of the spit, he placed it before the doctor, remarking, "You carve better than anyone of ...
— The South Sea Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... hard it is To track the signs of that pernicious cold: Pines only, noxious yews, and ivies dark At times reveal its traces. All these rules Regarding, let your land, ay, long before, Scorch to the quick, and into trenches carve The mighty mountains, and their upturned clods Bare to the north wind, ere thou plant therein The vine's prolific kindred. Fields whose soil Is crumbling are the best: winds look to that, And bitter hoar-frosts, and the delver's toil Untiring, as he stirs the loosened glebe. ...
— The Georgics • Virgil


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