chiselling

  • 61chisel — [[t]tʃɪ̱z(ə)l[/t]] chisels, chiselling, chiselled (in AM, use chiseling, chiseled) 1) N COUNT A chisel is a tool that has a long metal blade with a sharp edge at the end. It is used for cutting and shaping wood and stone. ...a hammer and chisel.… …

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  • 62spread for —    (of a female) to copulate with    Usually willingly, once, and outside marriage.    Explicitly as spread your legs:     They must both be paid, cash on the barrelhead, before she would spread her legs. (Monsarrat, 1978)    or more vulgarly as… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 63chisel — [ tʃɪz(ə)l] noun a long bladed hand tool with a bevelled cutting edge, struck with a hammer or mallet to cut or shape wood, stone, or metal. verb (chisels, chiselling, chiselled; US chisels, chiseling, chiseled) 1》 cut or shape with a chisel. 2》… …

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  • 64engraving — n. 1. Cutting, carving, chiselling, incising, marking with incisions. 2. Engraver s art, graver s art. 3. Engraved plate. 4. Print …

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  • 65chisel — 1 noun (C) a metal tool with a sharp edge, used to cut wood or stone 2 verb chiselled, chiselling BrE, chiseled, chiseling AmE (T) 1 to use a chisel to cut wood or stone into a particular shape: chisel sth into/from/in etc: Martin chiselled a… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 66chisel — /ˈtʃɪzəl / (say chizuhl) noun 1. a tool, as of steel, with a cutting edge at the extremity, usually transverse to the axis, for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc. –verb (chiselled or, US, chiseled, chiselling or, US, chiseling) – …

  • 67tula adze — /ˈtjulə ædz/ (say tyoohluh adz) noun a cutting tool which consists of a stone flake, often a tula, hafted in resin onto a wooden handle; traditionally used by the Aboriginal people of central Australia for chiselling and scraping wood.… …

  • 68σμιλιγλύφοις — σμιλιγλύφος chiselling masc/fem/neut dat pl …

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  • 69doubling of final consonants in inflection — The table below explains the differing practice in English shown by the forms hotter, enrolled, offered, targeted, in which the root word (hot, enrol, offer, target) ends in a single consonant. Practice can also differ with the same word in BrE… …

    Modern English usage

  • 70engraving — [n] carving of letters or design into something blocking, chasing, chiselling, cutting, dry point, enchasing, etching, illustration, impression, inscribing, inscription, intaglio, lithograph, mezzotint, photoengraving, photogravure, print,… …

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