Sekirov Dictionary

carve

UK /kɑːv/US /kɑɹv/

verb 6
noun 2
forms 5
phrases 2

verb6

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To cut meat in order to serve it.
- You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.
•
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.
- The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven[…]. — 1920
•
(figurative) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food. — 1692
To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
•
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. — 1598
•
(no longer used) 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

noun2

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The act of carving
- Give that turkey a careful carve.
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(no longer used) A carucate.
- Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land. — 1868

forms

carved · carvedst · carven · carving · carves

Phrases with carve

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