(~s, carving, ~d)
1.
If you ~ an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you ~ something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.
One of the prisoners has ~d a beautiful wooden chess set...
He ~s his figures from white pine...
I picked up a piece of wood and started carving.
...~d stone figures.
= sculpt
VERB: V n, V n prep, V, V-ed
see also carving
2.
If you ~ writing or a design on an object, you cut it into the surface of the object.
He ~d his name on his desk...
The ornately ~d doors were made in the seventeenth century.
VERB: V n in/on n, V-ed
3.
If you ~ a piece of cooked meat, you cut slices from it so that you can eat it.
Andrew began to ~ the chicken...
Carve the beef into slices.
VERB: V n, V n into n