Crossword clues for carving
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carving \Carv"ing\, n.
The act or art of one who carves.
A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material. ``Carving in wood.''
--Sir W. Temple.The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
Carve \Carve\ (k[aum]rv), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carved (k[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Carving.] [AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. gra`fein to write, orig. to scratch, and E. -graphy. Cf. Graphic.]
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To cut. [Obs.]
Or they will carven the shepherd's throat.
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To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
Carved with figures strange and sweet.
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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. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. ``To carve a capon.''
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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.
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To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
Who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
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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. ``[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage.''
--Shak.Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, verbal noun from carve.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A carved object. 2 The craft of producing a carved object. vb. 1 (present participle of carve English) 2 (context snowboarding English) Executing turns without pivoting.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. It may also refer to:
Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even when pieces have been removed from it, and yet soft enough for portions to be scraped away with available tools. Carving, as a means for making sculpture, is distinct from methods using soft and malleable materials like clay, fruit, and melted glass, which may be shaped into the desired forms while soft and then harden into that form. Carving tends to require much more work than methods using malleable materials.
Kinds of carving include:
- Bone carving
- Chip carving
- Fruit carving
- Gourd carving or gourd art
- Ice carving or ice sculpture
- Ivory carving
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Stone carving
- Petroglyph
- Vegetable carving
- Wood carving
- Hobo nickel
Usage examples of "carving".
She did not care to dwell too long on what these Acheronian carvings might mean.
Whole walls were covered with painting and carving, many of them illustrating the life of Akha and the great battles he had fought, as well as the battles he would fight when again enough humans had faith in his strength.
The Brazilian girl on the ship told me that she had gone with her family to see a native village, and bought beadwork there, and carvings.
Sherwood came upon some exotic trinkets, simple but impressive carvings of bears, in bone and walrus ivory.
Since the six-syllable formula is the special mantra of Avalokitesvara, low relief carving of that Bodhisattva might be found with it.
From the rear of one great temple stretched a low black passage which Carter followed far into the rock with a torch till he came to a lightless domed hall of vast proportions, whose vaultings were covered with demoniac carvings and in whose centre yawned a foul and bottomless well like that in the hideous monastery of Leng where broods alone the High-Priest Not To Be Described.
In the carving it may be seen that the throats of the girls are encircled by ropelike collars, presumably woven of some vegetable substance.
Crested heads capped in drifts, and cold eye sockets scalloped with crusts of rimed ice, the carvings aligned their uncanny awareness and sampled his stalking presence.
Zhentilar, one of the Black Blades that have spent years carving up the Dales and the dalefolk that live in them.
The worn old beam above him, with its tiny carving of a watchful owl and its wandering sweep of darker wood, was as familiar to him as his own right hand.
Nothing there had been disturbingly different, not the trees and the vegetation, not even the unusual carvings, and certainly not the fine bridge.
The abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty and encouragement of the Fenian Raids by the American people had put the Canadians on their mettle and stiffened their backbone, so that neither retaliatory threats or honeyed allurements had any effect in changing their minds from carving out their own destiny under the broad folds of the Union Jack.
Sometimes, while watching Fingo carve, Francis would sit on a bench in the corner of the workshop and sketch, trying to visualize details of the carving which were, as yet, only roughly hewed in the wood.
Sometimes, while watching Fingo carve, Francis would sit on a bench in the corner of the workshop and sketch, trying to visualize details of the carving which were, as yet, only roughly hewed in the wood.
The carving had been done nearly six centuries ago by a sculptor named Fingo, to whom the Beatus Leibowitz not yet canonized had appeared in a vision.