Carved and Shaved

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Carved adjective - Made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary).

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Shaved and carved are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shaved" instead a verb "Carved".

Nearby Words: carving, carver

Shaved adjective - Having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin.

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Carved and shaved are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Carved" instead a verb "Shaved".

Nearby Words: shave, shaving, shaver

For the same historical reason, all dime, quarter and half-dollar coins have "reeded" edges—the vertical grooves carved into the edge made it easy to tell if someone had shaved a little bit of silver off the outside of the coin.

Source: Useful Notes / American Money

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