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Chisel meaning
A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools. | A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs. | A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
Example sentences (20)
The cold chisel is used for cutting cold metals while the hot chisel is for hot metals.
After a hammer and chisel failed to gain access to the cairn, they brought in a backhoe and applied substantially more force.
Another artist is Gedion Nyanhongo, who creates intricate sculptures out of stone using all hand tools to hammer and chisel and then scrape and file to create the finished work.
As recently as October last year, 42-year-old Slobodan Novakovic was arrested and charged with six offences after he allegedly tried to smuggle drugs and a chisel into Canberra's jail.
Indie creative production agency and B&T Awards finalist, Chisel, has announced the signing of Murli Dhir (lead image) for representation in Australia and New Zealand.
One famous case was that of Rowland Bowen, a renowned cricket historian who used a hacksaw, a hammer and a chisel to remove his perfectly healthy right leg in 1968.
Plus, it would be easier to just tie a rope around the stones, rather than laboriously chisel out a hole.
Taking turns with duets and group performances they covered a R&B, reggae, Cold Chisel rock ballads and even audience requests for Rhianna.
Cold Chisel are coming back!
The Cold Chisel frontman has four adult children with his wife Jane, who he celebrated his 43rd anniversary with earlier this year.
The crowd had already been treated to a fabulous afternoon of quality music from the likes of Birds of Tokyo and The Cruel Sea when Cold Chisel took the stage, playing a solid two hour, 24 song set that closed near 9.30pm after a double encore.
The rock grab and chip samples were extracted using a rock hammer, or hammer and chisel to expose fresh surfaces and to liberate a sample of anywhere between 0.5 to 5.0 kilograms.
You would choose the log you wanted, the wood you wanted, and then use your tool – a chisel here in this case – and paint and polish the carved piece after that.
If there is dust in the holes, it should be removed; use a screwdriver or chisel for this.
I met Eunice on Chisel Street, she was holding a straw basket filled with homemade remedies and looked absolutely content.
I used a wood chisel to get enough out of the jar to put on a cracker.
Bidding guidelines called from them to withstand at least an hour of punishment from a sledgehammer, pickaxe, torch, chisel or battery-operated tools and to prevent use of climbing aids such as grappling hooks.
His devotion to film sessions seems antithetical to Adebayo’s magical impact but it shows that he is very much a work in progress, that his tool of choice is still the chisel and not the wand.
It took much heavy hammering on a Dorset sea cliff to liberate the slabs of limestone rock containing the sea dragon’s fossils, and then almost a year to chip away at those stones to expose, like Michelangelo with his chisel, the creature lurking within.
Looking forward to some white supremacist group taking over Mount Rushmore and enslaving people to chisel Richard Spencer's face over Lincoln's.