chiseling
凿岩,凿刻,凿子,凿岩法
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Definitions
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- : a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
- : chisel plow.
- : Astronomy. the constellation Caelum.
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chis·eled, chis·el·ing or chis·elled, chis·el·ling.
- : to cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel.
- : to cheat or swindle: He chiseled me out of fifty dollars.
- : to get by cheating or trickery: He chiseled fifty dollars out of me.
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chis·eled, chis·el·ing or chis·elled, chis·el·ling.
- : to work with a chisel.
- : to trick; cheat.
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Using a stitching groover and a diamond chisel, which are relatively inexpensive, can be quite helpful when it comes to getting clean stitching.
In 1902, deep in the Mojave Desert in California, a man named William Henry Schmidt began chiseling.
An artist in New Mexico has spent decades chiseling out fantastical caves from the mountains, one pickaxe swing at a time.
There was in both the same irony of lip line, the same fair chiseling of chin and nostril and brow, the same weariness of eye.
Fire lapped the sculptured screen inside the western doors, and the lovely lavish chiseling has become a blurred, amorphous mass.
From Ruskin: "The sharpest, finest chiseling, and patientest fusing;" "distantest relationships;" "sorrowfulest spectacles."
This chiseling out of streets in such abrupt fashion is puzzling to the person with notions of how tropical people behave.
A red-breasted woodpecker was chiseling out a nursery in a tall sycamore at the border of a woodland.