Carve

Quick meaning: Carve is a verb meaning To cut meat in order to serve it.

Meaning

To cut meat in order to serve it.

More Meanings

1. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
2. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
3. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
4. The act of carving
5. 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.
6. (archaic) To cut.
7. (obsolete) A carucate.

Example Sentences

to carve a name into a tree

You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.

Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.

[…] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.

Word Forms

• carves
• carving
• carved
• carven

Synonyms for carve

Depending on context, synonyms include cut up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cut up, incise, slice, cut, excavate, rub.

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