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carve

Pronunciation: /kɑɹv/

The English word “carve” has 8 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To cut.
  2. To cut meat in order to serve it.
  3. 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.
  4. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
  5. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
  6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

noun

  1. A carucate.
  2. The act of carving

Etymology

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,…

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