Concept cluster: Tools > Wood carving or cutting
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(transitive) To cut; carve or cut up; cut in pieces; carve.
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(masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
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To paint, or make clean or bright with a brush.
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One who calques.
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(nonstandard, rare) To do carpentry, or work on (something) as a carpenter.
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To hollow by carving.
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(country, land, etc.) To divide or dismember, separate into parts
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Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done.
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The act or craft of producing a carved object.
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(carpentry) A knife used to pare, cut, and smooth wood.
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Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
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Alternative spelling of chiseler [One who uses a chisel for carving.]
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Cleft or cloven.
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Cut very short.
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A person who operates such a machine.
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A person who applies creosote.
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A crosswise cut.
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To refine; to decide how to apportion.
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Alternative form of cutglass [(informal, of an English accent) Very precisely and clearly enunciated.]
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Having had shirt sleeves or pantlegs shortened by cutting material from the end.
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(computing) Clip art.
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That is used for cutting.
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(transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado.
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(transitive) To impact something, producing a dent.
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Made by die-cutting.
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To set (a gemstone etc.) into.
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(transitive) To carve (something) into a material.
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(transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
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One who makes grooves or flutings.
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(obsolete) To cut through, cut completely; to carve up; to cut off.
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(obsolete) a carver, sculptor, or engraver
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(video games, informal) Involving a lot of repetition in order to progress.
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Cut by hand.
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carve out, or cut out a form, or to make something hollow by using heavy cutting tools such as an axe.
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Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
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(transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate
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(informal) Clipping of impression. (in various senses) [The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.]
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(transitive) To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.
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The act of cutting into a substance.
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Set in by or as if by cutting.
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(obsolete, poetic) sculpted; carved
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Obsolete form of carve. [(archaic) To cut.]
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(figuratively) To make an impression; to have an effect on; to chip away at.
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(transitive, intransitive) To put makeup on (someone or something).
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(dated) A manicurist.
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A person who mends.
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A beauty salon dedicated to nail care e.g. manicures and pedicures.
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(transitive) To cut a notch in (something).
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One who makes notches.
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A groove; channel.
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An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
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sharpened by means of pansharpening
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Alternative form of paper cut [(medicine) A wound caused by a piece of paper or any thin, sharp material which can slice through a person's skin.]
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Lopped; said of trees having their tops cut off.
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someone who works with roughcasting.
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(transitive) To carve out gradually.
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A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
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(transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
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(transitive, obsolete) To provide (a sword, etc.) with a sheath.
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(transitive) To attach splints to a broken limb in order to allow it to grow together.
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(transitive) To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
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(transitive) To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon.
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A person who trepans.
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A trepanner.
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that has been trimmed
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(countable) A carved wooden object.
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a person who is skilled at woodcarving
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Alternative spelling of wood carving [(uncountable) The art of carving wood to make decorative objects.]
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A person who makes woodcuts.
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The process of making woodcuts.

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