Carve
- n. A carucate.
- v. t. To cut.
- v. t. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
- v. t. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
- v. t. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
- v. t. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
- v. t. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- v. t. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- v. i. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
- v. i. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.