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Meanings of chisel in English
Usage of chisel in English
1
The chisel work, the fine detail, the work of a master artisan.
2
The tough oak resisted; the chisel slipped; it was maddeningly slow work.
3
Too often it has taken a hammer and chisel to excavate words.
4
The painter has but the same pencil-thesculptor the chisel of centuries.
5
With the cold chisel and the hammer he went to the chest.
6
Instead, turn the chisel point just a few degrees after each strike.
7
The matter of the cold chisel still remained to be thrashed out.
8
Clap in the chisel, or I'll hurl you off into the water.
9
Invisible hands deface his icy statuary; his chisel has lost its cunning.
10
Inside she heard the tap tap tap of a hammer and chisel.
11
He struck a desperate- adespairingblow and the hammer and chisel dropped.
12
A chisel I had with me to cut the frozen sand with.
13
The chisel of a Phidias could hardly have exceeded such a form.
14
Nothing less than a chisel could have cut the mortar that way.
15
This cut should not be too deep or the chisel will burn.
16
The head must be cut through with chisel or a fine saw.
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Chisel across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common