Minecraft might be the greatest time suck of all time. Normally when you play a game for fifty hours non-stop, you have nothing to show for it. In Minecraft, you can come away with a masterpiece of architecture that you can totally use to trick your parents in to thinking you're doing something educational. Next time I build a house, I'm definitely hiring one of these Minecraft geniuses to design it. I just hope I don't burn myself on all of the lava pools. Here are Minecraft castles that I want to live in.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: carving(noun) a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape. carving, cutting(noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape.
Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, stone work has survived which was created during our prehistory. Work carried out by paleolithic societies to create flint tools is more often referred to as knapping. Stone carving that is done to produce lettering is more often referred to as lettering. The process of removing stone from the earth is called mining or quarrying.