Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   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.                                --Macaulay.