Carved

ppl. a. [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.  Shaks., Rich. II., III. iii. 152. A payre of carued Saints.

1611.  Bible, Ps. lxxiv. 6. They breake downe the carued worke thereof at once, with axes and hammers.

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. (1703), 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.