Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CARVE
carve, cut up
(verb) cut to pieces; “Father carved the ham”
carve
(verb) form by carving; “Carve a flower from the ice”
carve, chip at
(verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; “carve one’s name into the bark”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past (obsolete) corve or carved, past participle (archaic) carven or (obsolete) corven or carved)
(archaic) To cut.
To cut meat in order to serve it.
To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
(snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Noun
carve (plural carves)
(obsolete) A carucate.
Anagrams
• Caver, caver, crave, varec
Source: Wiktionary
Carve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carved; p. pr. & vb. n. Carving.] Etym: [AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. -graphy. Cf. Graphic.]
1. To cut. [Obs.] Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser.
2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge.
3. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. 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. Macaulay.
Carve, v. i.
1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
2. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
Carve, n.
Definition: A carucate. [Obs.] Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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