About The Word Carve

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Carve

Carve Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Carve?
[v] cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham"
[v] form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice" [v] engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark" Synonyms | Synonyms for Carve: chip at | cut up Related Terms | Find terms related to Carve: allot | amputate | apportion | assemble | autolithograph | ax | be a printmaker | bisect | block out | book | butcher | calendar | canal | canalize | carve up | cast | catalog | chalk | chalk up | chamfer | channel | character | chase | check in | chip | chisel | chop | chronicle | cleave | convert | corrugate | crack | crease | create | cribble | crimp | crosshatch | cultivate | cut | cut away | cut in two | cut off | cut up | dado | dichotomize | dike | dissect | dissever | ditch | divide | divide into shares | divide up | divide with | divvy up | docket | efform | enchase | engrave | enroll | enscroll | enter | excise | extract | fashion | figure | file | fill out | fissure | fix | flute | forge | form | formalize | found | frame | furrow | gash | goffer | gouge | grave | groove | grow | gully | hack | halve | harvest | hatch | hew | impanel | incise | index | inscribe | insculpture | insert | jigsaw | jot down | knead | knock out | lance | lay out | lick into shape | line | list | lithograph | log | machine | make a memorandum | make a note | make an entry | make out | make prints | mark | mark down | matriculate | mill | mine | mint | minute | model | mold | note | note down | parcel | parcel out | pare | part | partition | place upon record | pleat | plow | poll | portion | post | post up | print | process | prune | pump | put down | put in writing | put on paper | put on tape | rabbet | raise | rear | record | reduce to writing | refine | register | rend | rifle | rive | rough out | roughcast | roughhew | rut | saw | scissor | score | scrape | scratch | sculp | sculpt | sculpture | set | set down | sever | shape | share | share out | share with | slash | slice | slice the pie | slice up | slit | smelt | snip | solder | split | split up | stamp | stipple | streak | striate | subdivide | sunder | tabulate | tailor | take down | tape | tape-record | tear | thermoform | tool | trench | trough | videotape | weld | whittle | work | wrinkle | write | write down | write in | write out | write up See Also | break off | carve up | chip | chisel | cut | cut off | dissever | divide | engrave | filet | fillet | forge | form | fret | grave | hew | hew out | inscribe | knap | mold | mould | sculpt | sculpture | separate | shape | shave | split | split up | work Carve In Webster's Dictionary \Carve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Carved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Carving}.] [AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G.
kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. ? to write, orig.
to scatch, and E. -graphy. Cf. {Graphic}.]
1. To cut. [Obs.]
Or they will carven the shepherd's throat.
--Spenser.
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. --Coleridge.
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. --Tennyson.
We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone.
--C. Wolfe.
4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to
divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
``To carve a capon.'' --Shak.
5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
My good blade carved the casques of men. --Tennyson.
A million wrinkles carved his skin. --Tennyson.
6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
Who could easily have carved themselves their own
food. --South.
7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new
doublet. --Shak.
{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.'' --Shak.
Fortunes were carved out of the property of the
crown. --Macaulay.
\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. \Carve\, n. A carucate. [Obs.] --Burrill. |
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