If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out. One of the prisoners has carved a beautiful wooden chess set He carves his figures from white pine I picked up a piece of wood and started carving. carved stone figures. see also carving = sculpt
verb To carve can mean three things: to turn when all four wheels are in contact with the riding surface; to turn in a pool or bowl corner in the same way, with all four wheels on the surface; or, when performing an aerial, to do so in an arc, that is, as opposed to straight up and down
If you carve writing or a design on an object, you cut it into the surface of the object. He carved his name on his desk The ornately carved doors were made in the seventeenth century
A turn that uses the edge of the snowboard as opposed to the bottom When you carve, your board moves straight ahead so that its tip and tail pass through the same point in the snow, leaving a razor-thin track in the snow Technically, skipping or skidding while turning isn't a carve
cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham" form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice" engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark
To carve can mean three things: to turn when all four wheels are in contact with the riding surface; to turn in a pool or bowl corner in the same way, with all four wheels on the surface; or, when performing an aerial, to do so in an arc, that is, as opposed to straight up and down