becarve

Meaning

Verb

• To cut off.
• To cut up; cut open; open up.
• To cut; carve or cut up; cut in pieces; carve.

Origin

• From Middle English bekerven, bikeorven, from Old English beċeorfan ("to becarve, cut off, separate, cut or pare away, deprive a person of something by cutting, amputate, behead"), equivalent to be- + carve. Cognate with Old Frisian bikerva ("to amputate").