Word.ws English Dictionary

cutting and carving

cutting and carving is the present participle and gerund of cut and carve.

Meaning of cut and carve

Verb

cut and carve (third-person singular simple present cuts and carves, present participle cutting and carving, simple past and past participle cut and carved)

  1. To refine; to decide how to apportion.
    • Vote largely from the sinking fund for the payment of your debts, and let the ministry cut and carve the remainder as they please; […]1813, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803
    Synonyms:
    slice and dice

Questions about cutting and carving

What is cutting and carving the present participle and gerund of?
Cutting and carving is the present participle and gerund of cut and carve.

Words near cutting and carving in the dictionary

  1. cutting a wide swathe
  2. cutting about
  3. cutting across
  4. cutting age
  5. cutting along
  6. cutting and carving
  7. cutting away
  8. cutting away one's soul
  9. cutting back
  10. cutting bait
  11. cutting block

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cutting and carving (page history and authors); cut and carve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cutting and carving.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cutting_and_carving. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.