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An angel carved in stone.

Tennyson.

We carved not a line, and we raised not a
stone.

C. Wolfe.

4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as
meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to
apportion. "To carve a capon." Shak.

5. 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.

Tennyson.

6. To take or make, as by cutting; to
provide.

Who could easily have carved themselves
their own food.

South.

7. 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.


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