WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sculpt
    v 1: create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material;
         "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" [syn: sculpt,
         sculpture]
    2: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at
       it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of
       her husband" [syn: sculpt, sculpture, grave]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "sculpt":
   assemble, block out, carve, cast, chase, chisel, create, cut,
   efform, engrave, fashion, figure, fix, forge, form, formalize,
   found, frame, grave, hew, insculpture, knead, knock out, lay out,
   lick into shape, mint, model, mold, rough out, roughcast, roughhew,
   sculp, sculpture, set, shape, solder, stamp, tailor, thermoform,
   weld, work