tallar

v. cut, incise; shape; measure; work; bother, annoy; gossip

= carve, cut, carve out, hew.
Ex: What the presidency needs is a job description; not one carved in a tablet of stone and certainly not one which would form all future presidents in the same sanitised mould.
Ex: Fraktur, cut with a contrived formality that belied its cursive origins, became the most successful of all the gothic types, surviving as a book face in Germany until the mid twentieth century.
Ex: In consequence, deafened people have to carve out a sense of identity by developing associations & communicative strategies.
Ex: Oak was shaped by splitting with wooden wedges, and by hewing with axes or adzes.
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* tallar con una navaja = whittle.