carved, ppl. a.
(kɑːvd, -ɪd)
[f. carve v. + -ed1.]
Cut, sculptured, engraved; see the vb.
| 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 192 b, No kerued ne grauen ydoll. 1593 Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 152 A payre of carued Saints. 1611 Bible Ps. lxxiv. 6 They breake downe the carued worke thereof. 1662 Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 188 The carved chapel of Wainscot. 1822 Procter (B. Cornwall) Flood of Thess. ii. 102 Phidias—whose carved thoughts Threw beauty o'er the years of Pericles. 1870 Bryant Iliad I. iii. 100 At rest on his carved couch. |
b. Naut. high-carved: app. = high-cargued; see cargued, and carving.
| a 1642 Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 374/1 The difference in the Built of Ships, betwixt a flush Deck and high Carv'd. 1667 Lond. Gaz. No. 170/4 Two great Frenchmen of War, being high carved ships. |