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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



... that it has brought me acquainted with a worthy gentleman like yourself, to whom my rustic manners prove not to be displeasing. I have too few friends to neglect any that chance may offer; and as I must carve my own way in the world, and fight for a position in it, I gladly accept any hand that may be stretched out to help me in ...
— The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 - An Historical Romance • W. Harrison Ainsworth
... fully five hundred miles from their lodges. Such a traditional adherence to a choice of material peculiar to a remote source, may frequently prove of considerable value as a clue to former migrations of the tribes. Both the Cree and the Winnebago Indians carve pipes in stone of a form now more frequently met with in the Indian curiosity stores of Canada and the States than any other specimens of native carving. The tube, cut at a sharp right angle with the cylindrical bowl of the pipe, is ornamented with a thin vandyked ridge, generally ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings
... that scoundrel. He won't escape before I carve a nice scar on his face.... But are you coming ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... consciousness, could we enter into immediate communion with things and with ourselves, probably art would be useless, or rather we should all be artists, for then our soul would continually vibrate in perfect accord with nature. Our eyes, aided by memory, would carve out in space and fix in time the most inimitable of pictures. Hewn in the living marble of the human form, fragments of statues, beautiful as the relics of antique statuary, would strike the passing glance. Deep in our souls we should hear the strains ...
— Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic • Henri Bergson
... have said. str. 3. Let the best rule, they say again. The best, then, to dominion hath the right. Rights unconceded and denied, Surely, if rights, may be by force asserted— May be, nay should, if for the general weal. The best, then, to the throne may carve his way, And strike opposers down, Free from all guilt of lawlessness, Or selfish lust of personal power; Bent only to serve ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold


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