Dictionary

To dig.

To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.

Example: to grave an image

To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.

Low in pitch, tone etc.

Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.

Influential, important; authoritative.

To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.