Noun: carve
| Singular | carve |
| Plural | carves |
Sample Sentences
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... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ... [1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland:]
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Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land. [1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31]
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Give that turkey a careful carve.
Nouns inflected like carve
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *kerbaną
4. Proto-West Germanic *kerban
5. Old English ċeorfan
6. Middle English kerven
7. English carve
8. From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”). See: Old English Nouns '
ceorfan'.
Verbs referencing "carve"
English Nouns
graft, English Nouns
graphic.