To cut with blows so as to shape, smooth, trim, reduce in size, or the like; to shape with cutting blows of axe, hammer and chisel, etc. Now…

transitive. To cause or produce (a wound, hole, etc.) by slashing or cutting. Obsolete.

transitive. To cut, esp. to a certain size or shape; to shape, fashion; well tailed, well shaped or fashioned. See also tailed, adj.2 1. Obsolete.

To cut (a way or passage). Also figurative.

transferred. To make (a hole, etc.) by tearing.

To form or produce by attrition.

transitive. To make, fashion, or form (a material thing), esp. by digging or cutting; to carve out, dig out, etc. Now rare.

transitive. To shape or carve (wood, stone, or some other substance) by shaving off thin slices. Cf. draw knife, n. 1.

to carve out. transferred. (Sometimes also in other senses, esp. senses 1and 4.)

transitive. To break or pound out; to make by pounding.

To fashion by cutting out of a sheet of metal. Obsolete.

transitive. To make or produce by cutting or rasping. Obsolete.

To cut; to form, or sever, by cutting. Scottish and northern dialect.

To make or shape by whittling; to carve. Also figurative.

transitive. To form by tearing up something. Obsolete.

transitive. To make (a way) by slicing.

To make by this action.