chiselling's Usage Examples:

Costumes of the utmost magnificence were worn, and the chiselling of masks for the use of the performers occupied scores of artists and ranked as a high glyptic accomplishment.

The masonry may be attributed to the 5th century; the chiselling of the immense blocks is not " Cyclopean.

Great importance has always been attached by Japanese experts to the patina of metal used for artistic chiselling.

It has been quarried since 1785; marble monuments were first manufactured about 1808; and at South Dorset in 1818 marble seems first to have been sawed in blocks, the earlier method having been chiselling.

The fashion is always accompanied by chiselling a jour (sukashi-bori), so that the sculptured portions stand out in their entirety.

With regard to incised chiselling, the commonest form is kebori (hair-carving), which may be called engraving, the lines being of uniform thickness and depth.

Scarcely less important in Japanese eyes than the chiselling of the decorative design itself is the preparation of the field to which it is applied.

The quality of the Point of chiselling is the first feature to which the Japanese View.

In this kind of chiselling the Japanese artist can claim to be unique as well as unrivalled.

Synonyms:

set chisel, drove chisel, firmer chisel, drove, edge tool, ripping chisel, burin, cold chisel, wood chisel,

Antonyms:

repel, unfasten, unhook, straight line, undeceive,