carves

Verb

carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved, past participle carved or (archaic) carven)

1. (archaic) To cut.
   • My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure, / My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure.1834 September (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Sir Galahad”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 174
2. To cut meat in order to serve it.
   • You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.
3. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
   • to carve a name into a tree
4. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
5. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
   • […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
   • Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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