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carving

/ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/ verb C2
  1. Executing turns without pivoting.
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Verb forms

Base form
carving
He/she/it
carvings
Past
carvinged
Past participle
carvinged
-ing form
carvinging

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“I’ll settle Miss Anne when she comes home,” said Marilla grimly, as she shaved up kindlings with a carving knife and with more vim than was strictly necessary.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 211 · C1
“That’s all right for you, Dele,” said Joe, attacking a can of peas with a carving knife and a hatchet, “but how about me?
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 3 · C1
Inside was a large room in which fifty workers were carving or moulding.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 81 · C1

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