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Definition of Carves
1. carve [v] - See also: carve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carves
Literary usage of Carves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1887)
"Recovery-Ovens on the Modified carves System. In the introductory part of this
... Since attention was drawn to the undoubted success of carves' ovens, ..."
2. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1889)
"(3) Sir IL Bell then institutes a comparison between the beehive and the Simon-carves
coke in respect of the quantity of heat evolved and beneficially ..."
3. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"Later on, it would appear that the Pauwels- Dubochet coke ovens were improved,
possibly as the result of carves' improvement of the Knab ovens, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1827)
"... and therefore that the old rule of the 14 and 15 Geo. 2. was no longer to be
considered as in force. Rule refused. Thursday, HENSCHEN against carves. ..."
5. The Star Speaker: A Complete and Choice Collection of the Best Productions by Flora N. Kightlinger (1892)
"WHEN FATHER carves THE DUCK. EV WRIGHT. We all look on with anxious eyes When
father carves the duck, And mother almost always sighs When father carves the ..."
6. The Mocking Bards: A Collection of Parodies Burlesques & Imitations by Ralph Aberdein Lyon (1905)
"He braces up and grabs a fork Whene'er he carves a duck, And won't allow a soul
to talk ... The platter's always sure to slip When father carves a duck, ..."
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