What is to cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue called?
chisel — To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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