Meanings of burin in English

Chelsea, meanwhile, could finally tell the engraver to get his burin out.

There too was the copper-worker with his burin and graver.

Herkomer says that he used the burin in finishing his bitten work with marvellous skill.

A long piece fell away-theburin spall-leavingthe blade with a strong, sharp, chisel tip.

The fust ones is the Confed'rits burin' their dead.

The first is to plough into the metal with a sharp steel instrument called a burin.

Mammoth ivory could even be preshaped by cutting a circular groove first with a burin chisel.

And I'm sure I could make a burin out of flint that would bore those holes faster.

Then it was smoothed with sandstone and decorated with symbolic markings etched in with a flint burin.

Then he took up a burin and began to carve the shape of a face, a familiar face.

Then I'll make an awl, and a burin or two so I can carve a charm on the throwers.

Passing from the bloom of Nature, we complete our circuit with that which springs from the pencil, the chisel and the burin.

Using a flint burin, or similar chisel-like tool, they carved through a plank to cut off a long section with straight ends.

Sitting down, he braced the bone against his foot, and, using the burin, he scratched a long line down the length of it.

The first image on the left was partly carved in the clay; the rest were incised into the stone, probably with a flint burin.

He and his Kate needed little money; and the seer-husband's pencils and burin, or the private kindness so constantly shown him, provided daily bread.