Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made or shaped with or as if with a chisel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worked with a chisel, or as with a chisel; clear-cut; statuesque.
- Shaped like a chisel: as, a crowbar with a chiseled edge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb US Simple past tense and past participle of
chisel . - adjective US, of a face Having strongly
defined facial features. - adjective Having well-developed
muscles withminimal bodyfat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges
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Examples
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Now, in-your-face religious conservatives want the phrase chiseled in front of us at court, at work and in our kids' schools.
Roy Speckhardt: The Resolution For 'In God We Trust' Roy Speckhardt 2011
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Now, in-your-face religious conservatives want the phrase chiseled in front of us at court, at work and in our kids' schools.
Roy Speckhardt: The Resolution For 'In God We Trust' Roy Speckhardt 2011
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Sure as I am that there’s a condo of sorts waiting down at the cemetery with my name chiseled on the mailbox.
Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010
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As well as being a handsome fellow chiseled from the same fine stock as myself, this fellow glutton and vomiter-upon-the-backs-of-the-people is - like Congress - merely a (albeit rotund and disgusting) puppet who embraces only those ideals his corporate masters instruct him to embrace.
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As well as being a handsome fellow chiseled from the same fine stock as myself, this fellow glutton and vomiter-upon-the-backs-of-the-people is - like Congress - merely a (albeit rotund and disgusting) puppet who embraces only those ideals his corporate masters instruct him to embrace.
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Anyway, our narrator is Sarge (Alan Van Sprang) a tough, determined, and grizzled Guardsman chiseled from the mold of Colin Farrell.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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When he joined the Confederacy, he was entitled to have his name chiseled off, the traitor.
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Davis was secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce when the bridge was started and therefore was entitled to have his name chiseled on it.
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When he joined the Confederacy, he was entitled to have his name chiseled off, the traitor.
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"He never wanted his name chiseled into a hospital facade or put on a plaque."
Mark Goulston, M.D.: Just Listen -- Ray Tye, Boston Philanthropist, Dies At 87 2010
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