Carve

v. t.	1.	To cut. [imp. & p. p. Carved (kärvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Carving.] Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. - Spenser.
	2.	To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. - Coleridge.
	3.	To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. An angel carved in stone. - Tennyson. We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. - C. Wolfe.
	4.	To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
	5.	To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. My good blade carved the casques of men. - Tennyson. A million wrinkles carved his skin. - Tennyson.
	6.	To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. - South.
	7.	To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. - Shak. To carve out to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. - Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. - Macaulay.
v. i.	1.	To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
	2.	To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
n.	1.	A carucate.

Verb	1.	carve - form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice"
	2.	carve - engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark" Synonyms: chip at
	3.	carve - cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham" Synonyms: cut up

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