(~s, ~ing, ~ed, ~ed, or ~n)
1.
If you ~ stone or wood, you cut it, for example with an axe. (OLD-FASHIONED)
He felled, peeled and ~ed his own timber.
= chop
VERB: V n
2.
If something is ~n from stone or wood, it is cut from stone or wood. (LITERARY, OLD-FASHIONED)
...the rock from which the lower chambers and subterranean passageways have been ~n.
...medieval monasteries ~n out of the rockface.
= cut
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed from/out of n, V-ed
3.
see also rough-~n