Definition of carve

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Carve (v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

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Carvel :: Carvel (n.) A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.
Pipestone :: Pipestone (n.) A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite..
Gargoyle :: Gargoyle (n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely..
Forkerve :: Forkerve (v. t.) See Forcarve, v. t..
Zoophorous :: Zoophorous (n.) The part between the architrave and cornice; the frieze; -- so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.
Apron :: Apron (n.) A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel..
Carve :: Carve (v. i.) To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
Fin :: Fin (v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub..
Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.
Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out..
Stringed :: Stringcourse (n.) A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work..
Grave :: Grave (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave..
Carve :: Carve (v. t.) To cut.
Bossage :: Bossage (n.) A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape..
Carvene :: Carvene (n.) An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway..
Lacwork :: Lacwork (n.) Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind..
Festoon :: Festoon (n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium..
Sculpture :: Sculpture (n.) Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc..
Carve :: Carve (v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Corven :: Corven () p. p. of Carve.
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