Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
Shak.
To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak.
Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.
Macaulay.
Carve, v. i. 1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.