carve
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną (compare West Frisian kerve, Low German karven, Dutch kerven, German kerben (“to notch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”) (compare Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɑɹv/
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Audio (US) (file)
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɑːv/
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- Homophone: calve (Received Pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)v
Verb[edit]
carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved or (archaic) corve, past participle carved or carven or (archaic) corven)
- (archaic) To cut.
- Tennyson
- My good blade carved the casques of men.
- Tennyson
- 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.
- to carve a name into a tree
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1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
- The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven […] .
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1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[2]:
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- South
- […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
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2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC[3]:
- The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
- South
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- Shakespeare
- Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
- Shakespeare
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]
cut
cut meat
shape a work by cutting
turn without pivoting
Noun[edit]
carve (plural carves)
- (obsolete) A carucate.
- 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
- ... 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, ...
- 1868, Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Wapentake of West Derby (translating a Latin text), page 31:
- Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
- 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
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