CARVE, verb transitive 1. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at tale. 2. To cut wood, stone or other material into some particular form, with an instrument, usually a chisel; to engrave; to cut figures or devices on hard materials. 3. To make or shape by cutting; as, to carve an image. 4. To apportion; to distribute; to provide at pleasure; to select and take, as to ones self, or to select and give to another. 5. To cut; to hew. To care out, is to cut out, or to lay out, by design; to plan. CARVE, verb transitive 1. To cut up meat; followed sometimes by for; as, to carve for all the quests. 2. To exercise the trade of a sculptor. 3. To engrave or cut figures. CARVE, noun A carucate.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI