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Definition of Chiselling
1. chisel [v] - See also: chisel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiselling
Literary usage of Chiselling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds of the Rockies by Leander Sylvester Keyser (1902)
"He was sedulously pursuing his vocation — a divine call, no doubt — of chiselling
grubs out of the bark of the pine trees, making the chips fly, ..."
2. Canadian Wilds: Tells about the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and by Hunter, Martin (1907)
"chiselling AND SHOOTING BEAVER. It is only in the far back country that the once
plentiful beaver ... chiselling, or trenching, beaver, as it is sometimes ..."
3. The Teacher's Hand-book of Slöjd: As Practised and Taught at Nääs by Otto Aron Salomon, Carl Nordendahl, Alfred Johansson (1904)
"Sawing off, long sawing, face planing, edge planing, squaring, gauging, gouging
with gouge and spoon-iron, scraping, perpendicular chiselling, filing, ..."
4. The Art of Interior Decoration by Grace Wood, Emily Burbank (1919)
"At no other time, nor in any other country, has an equal degree of perfection in
the fine chiselling of metals so much as ap- ..."
5. The Clinical Journal (1898)
"It is in these cases that no time should be lost in chiselling open the cortical
layer of the mastoid, which operation does not demand any very great skill ..."
6. The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature by Samuel Wells Williams (1882)
"... chiselling Out the Univers» masses of granite floating confusedly in space.
Behind the •openings his powerful hand has made are seen the sun, moon, ..."
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