An archaic or dialectal past tense of 'carve,' meaning to cut, slice, or shape something with a sharp tool.
From Old English ceorfan (to carve, cut), related to Gothic kairban. An obsolete or dialect form of the past tense, from Proto-Germanic roots meaning to cut.
English used to have more irregular verbs—we'd say 'I carf' and 'I carfed' for carving, but over time speakers smoothed these out to regular patterns, leaving only 'carved' today.
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