 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
carving
noun
1: a sculpture created by carving (as wood or ivory or stone)
2: cutting away parts to create a desired shape [syn: {cutting}]
3: creating figures or designs in three dimensions [syn: {sculpture}]
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Carving \Carv"ing\, noun
1. The act or art of one who carves.
2. A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other
material. ''Carving in wood.'' --Sir W. Temple.
3. The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or
epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the
15th century.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "carving":
bust, doll, dolly, dummy, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine,
gingerbread man, lay figure, man of straw, manikin, mannequin,
marionette, model, monument, portrait bust, puppet, scarecrow,
sculpture, snowman, statuary, statue, statuette, wax figure,
waxwork, wood carving
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