'Carve' definitions:

Definition of 'carve'

From: WordNet
verb
Form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice"
verb
Engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark" [syn: carve, chip at]
verb
Cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham" [syn: carve, cut up]

Definition of 'Carve'

From: GCIDE
  • Carve \Carve\ (k[aum]rv), v. t. [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.] [1913 Webster]
  • Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. [1913 Webster]
  • Carved with figures strange and sweet. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. [1913 Webster]
  • An angel carved in stone. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. --C. Wolfe. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. [1913 Webster]
  • My good blade carved the casques of men. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • A million wrinkles carved his skin. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. [1913 Webster]
  • Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. [1913 Webster]
  • Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Carve'

From: GCIDE
  • Carve \Carve\, v. i.
  • 1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Carve'

From: GCIDE
  • Carve \Carve\, n. A carucate. [Obs.] --Burrill. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Carve'

From: 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.

Synonyms of 'carve'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Carve'