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Carve

//kɑɹv// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A carucate. obsolete

    "... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ..."

  2. 2
    The act of carving

    "Give that turkey a careful carve."

Verb
  1. 1
    To cut. archaic

    "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."

  2. 2
    cut to pieces wordnet
  3. 3
    To cut meat in order to serve it.

    "You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables."

  4. 4
    form by carving wordnet
  5. 5
    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"

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  1. 6
    engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface wordnet
  2. 7
    To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
  3. 8
    To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. figuratively

    "[…] who could easily have carved themselves their own food."

  4. 9
    To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

    "Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).

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