CARVING

Carving

Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even when pieces have been removed from it, and yet soft enough for portions to be scraped away with available tools. Carving, as a means for making sculpture, is distinct from methods using soft and malleable materials like clay or melted glass, which may be shaped into the desired forms while soft and then harden into that form. Carving tends to require much more work than methods using malleable materials.

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carving

Noun

  1. A carved object.
    The carving on the oak panels was ancient.
  2. The craft of producing a carved object.
    He took up carving after his retirement.

Verb

carving

  1. Executing turns without pivoting.


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