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carven

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What does carven mean?

adjective

  1. Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done.
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verb

  1. (archaic) past participle of carve.

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Man by man those who stood between us and the carven sorapus wood bench went down before our blades.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe gods of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #64
"This is a carven flagon," said Sara, arranging tendrils of the wreath about the mug.
Frances Hodgson BurnettA Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first timeProject Gutenberg ebook #146
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There was no ticket office, nothing but a couple of whittled and carven benches.
Frank NorrisMcTeague: A Story of San FranciscoProject Gutenberg ebook #165
But the Sage led through it all unfumbling, and moreover now and again they came on that carven token of the sword and the bough.
William MorrisThe Well at the World's End: A TaleProject Gutenberg ebook #169
Amid picturesque and disordered fragments of a hundred ages, in a great carven chair placed before a towering statue of the Buddha, sat a hand-cuffed man.
Sax RohmerThe Insidious Dr. Fu ManchuProject Gutenberg ebook #173