Carve Definition

kärv

carved, carves, carving

verb

carved, carves, carving

To carve statues or designs.

Webster's New World

To divide by cutting; slice.

To carve meat.

Webster's New World

To make or shape by or as by cutting, chipping, hewing, etc.

Carve a statue out of wood, carve out a career for oneself.

Webster's New World

To divide into portions, as land.

Webster's New World

To cut into a desired shape; fashion by cutting.

Carve the wood into a figure.

American Heritage

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noun

(obsolete) A carucate.

Half a carve of arable land.

Wiktionary

Origin of Carve

Middle English kerven, from Old English ċeorfan, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną (compare Kyrgyz kerve, Dutch kerven, German kerben (“to notch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gerebh- (“to scratch”) (cf. Old Prussian gīrbin ‘number’, Old Church Slavonic žrĕbĭjĭ ‘lot, tallymark’, Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein) ‘to scratch, etch’).

From Wiktionary
Middle English kerven from Old English ceorfan gerbh- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition