 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
carve
verb
1: form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice"
2: engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's
name into the bark" [syn: {chip at}]
3: cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham" [syn: {cut up}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Carve \Carve\, verb (used without an object)
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Carve \Carve\, noun
A carucate. [Obs.] --Burrill.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Carve \Carve\ (k[aum]rv), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Carved}
(k[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Carving}.] [AS. ceorfan to cut,
carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva,
and to Gr. gra'fein to write, orig. to scratch, 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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
207 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Carve
The arts of engraving and carving were much practised among the
Jews. They were practised in connection with the construction of
the tabernacle and the temple (Ex. 31:2, 5; 35:33; 1 Kings 6:18,
35; Ps. 74:6), as well as in the ornamentation of the priestly
dresses (Ex. 28:9-36; Zech. 3:9; 2 Chr. 2:7, 14). Isaiah
(44:13-17) gives a minute description of the process of carving
idols of wood.
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