intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice.

intransitive verb. To divide by parceling out.

intransitive verb. To cut into a desired shape; fashion by cutting.

intransitive verb. To make or form by or as if by cutting.

intransitive verb. To decorate by cutting and shaping carefully.

intransitive verb. To make (a turn or turns) smoothly and without skidding, as when skiing or riding a snowboard, by leaning sharply into the direction of the turn.

intransitive verb. To engrave or cut figures as an art, hobby, or trade.

intransitive verb. To disjoint, slice, and serve meat or poultry.

intransitive verb. To carve turns, as when skiing.

To cut with an edged tool or sharp instrument.

Specifically — To cut into pieces or slices, as meat at table; divide by cutting, or, figuratively, by parceling out: as, to carve a fowl; to carve up an estate.

To cut (some solid material) in order to produce the representation of an object or a design; fashion by cutting: as, to carve a block of marble into a statue.

To produce by cutting; form by cutting or hewing; grave or engrave; sculpture: as, to carve an image; to carve a design in boxwood.

To decorate by carving; produce cut or sculptured designs upon: as, to carve, a capital; to carve a cherry-stone.

To mark as with carving.

To carve out. To make or form by carving or parceling; cut out: as, to carve out a smaller estate from a larger one.

Figuratively, to achieve by exertion or skill: as, to carve out a career for one's self.

To exercise the trade of a carver; engrave or cut figures.

To cut up meat: as, to carve for all the guests.

To carve for one's self, to do as one pleases; act independently.

To make a private sign to, at table. See II., 3.

To make a private sign with the little finger at table, as when one carves (def. II., 2) or pretends to carve, or raises a glass to one's lips.

noun. See carue.

To grow sour; curdle: said of cream.

intransitive verb. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

intransitive verb. To cut up meat.

noun. A carucate.

transitive verb. To cut.

transitive verb. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.

transitive verb. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form.

transitive verb. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.

transitive verb. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.

transitive verb. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

transitive verb. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

transitive verb. to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out.

verb. To cut.

verb. To cut meat in order to serve it.

verb. To shape to sculptural effect.

verb. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.

verb. To produce something using skill.

noun. A carucate.

verb. cut to pieces

verb. engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface

verb. form by carving

"The unsecured creditors may use that so-called carve-out to cover such expenses as attorneys 'fees or as a supplement to what the company will repay them upon its exit from bankruptcy protection."

chisel  cut  engrave  sculpture  

carve out  carve up  carve-up  carved in stone  carver  

Marv  marv  starve  

crocketed  favoriter  fourteenth-century  grained  hand-carved  

allot  amputate  apportion  apportion  assemble  

carved  carves  carving