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  • noun Plural form of chisel.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chisel.

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Examples

  • Plus there is sculpting with chisels, which is one of my favorite things to do, so I might have been a tad bit biased.

    A Little Summer Reading for the Newly Initiated Part I 2010

  • He lectured in motor vehicle bodywork and was often in the college's workshop for eight hours at a time, teaching students to use impact chisels, which is a kind of pneumatic tool.

    PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories 2010

  • Or best, the stylus or graver, with which the incision of the outline is made [Gesenius]. planes -- rather, "chisels" or "carving tools," for a plane would not answer for carving. compass -- from a Hebrew root, "to make a circle"; by it, symmetry of form is secured. according to ... beauty of a man -- irony.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The earlier regulations have now been restored - the site now limits the sale of knives to cutlery, letter openers, razor and surgical blades and tools such as chisels, axes and saws.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • The book contains a trove of material on setting up a low cost blacksmithing forge and blacksmithing basics, the making of blacksmithing tools, the making of just about every other kind of tool, such as chisels and screwdrivers - all the way to drills and milling cutters.

    Toolmonger: The Week In Tools 2009

  • Their metal chisels, cooking pots, colorful beads, needles, and knives, all these things tempt us, lead us to covet.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • And then it was not knives and chisels in her hands but living claws, long and sharp, sliding along every contour of the figure.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Eir strode toward them and spread a gauntlet tipped in chisels.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Have two British academics found the key to why Americans keep being bombarded today with a discourse that highlights dramatic "emergency" events -- that then leads inevitably to legislation that chips away or chisels away at what is left of the Constitution?

    Naomi Wolf: "Travelling States of Emergency" Unmasked: Did British Colonial Repression Tactics Inspire the American DHS? Naomi Wolf 2011

  • Have two British academics found the key to why Americans keep being bombarded today with a discourse that highlights dramatic "emergency" events -- that then leads inevitably to legislation that chips away or chisels away at what is left of the Constitution?

    Naomi Wolf: "Travelling States of Emergency" Unmasked: Did British Colonial Repression Tactics Inspire the American DHS? Naomi Wolf 2011

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