carve

verb

1. (archaic)To cut.

   “My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure, / My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure.”

2. To cut meat in order to serve it.

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

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.

   “to carve a name into a tree”

   “The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven[…].”

   “The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.”

4. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
5. (figuratively)To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

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

   “The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.”

6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

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

noun

1. (obsolete)A carucate.

   “... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...”

   “Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.”

2. The act of carving

   “Give that turkey a careful carve.”