Read full poem →He fawns to be fed with wiles;
You carve him a cross of needles,
And whet them sharp as your smiles.
Dictionary Entry
To cut or shape something, especially wood or stone, into a decorative form.
In a Sentence
“The artist used a sharp knife to carefully carve a detailed owl into the wooden block.”
Origin
From Old English 'ceorfan' (to cut, cut off, cut down).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “carve”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And with my words I carve a little jar
To keep their scented dust,
Read full poem →At the length of my nose.
To carve it to pattern
I think you propose.
Read full poem →a shot. Not that he shall be no scholar neither. He shall go to school
in winter, and learn to read and write, and my father will teach him to carve,
so that he can make the little horses, and cows, and chamois,
Read full poem →Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Read full poem →Of its own arduous fulness reverent:
Carve it in ivory or in ebony,
As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see
Read full poem →And to you, O world.
And I charge you to carve it
Upon my stone.
Read full poem →Vain beside mine. I drive my wedges home,
And carve the coastwise mountain into caves.
Lo! here is Rome, and Nineveh, and Thebes,
Read full poem →And mistresses with great smooth marbly limbs?
—That's if ye carve my epitaph aright,
Choice Latin, picked phrase, Tully's every word,
Read full poem →And mistresses with great smooth marbly limbs?
--That's if ye carve my epitaph aright,
Choice Latin, picked phrase, Tully's every word,