To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at tale.

To cut wood, stone or other material into some particular form, with an instrument, usually a chisel; to engrave; to cut figures or devices on hard materials.

To make or shape by cutting; as, to carve an image.

To apportion; to distribute; to provide at pleasure; to select and take, as to ones self, or to select and give to another.

To cut; to hew. To care out, is to cut out, or to lay out, by design; to plan.

To cut up meat; followed sometimes by for; as, to carve for all the quests.

To exercise the trade of a sculptor.

To engrave or cut figures.

A carucate.