carve

Meanings

Verb

• To cut.
• To cut meat in order to serve it.
• To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
• To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
• To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
• To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Noun

• A carucate.
• The act of carving

Origin

• From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ("to scratch"). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben; also Old Prussian gīrbin ("number"), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии ("lot, tallymark"), Ancient Greek γράφειν ("to scratch, etch").