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Shaped with a certain cutting tool
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chiselled
Word definitions for chiselled in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge [also: chiselling , chiselled ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Behind the plate is a chiselled cavity. ▪ Surviving daguerreotype self-portraits reveal a slim figure with strongly chiselled features. ▪ The sergeant admired the man's chiselled chin and ebony black hair glistening with ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context British English) (of a face) having strongly defined facial features. alt. (context British English) (en-past of: chisel ) v (context British English) (en-past of: chisel )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chisel \Chis"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chiseled , or Chiselled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chiseling , or Chiselling .] [Cf. F. ciseler.] To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue. To cut close, as in a bargain; ...
Usage examples of chiselled.
They saw a blockily built strawberry roan, his chiselled neck arched in a perfect crest, his rigid thigh muscles rippling under a shiny coat as he swung his hocks, his slim forelegs sweeping up and out, and every curve of his rounded body, from the tip of his absurd whisk-broom tail to the white snip on the end of his tossing nose, expressing that exuberance of spirits, that jaunty abandon of motion which is the very apex of hackney style.
Ten feet apart crouched the mocking-faced beasts of diarite, brooding on cyclopean pedestals whose sides were chiselled in fearsome bas-reliefs.
By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi.
Aurelianus and saw the lines of weariness that seemed chiselled into the stony face.
It seemed to have been crudely chiselled out of coal, and its face was twisted and distorted as if it had spent centuries under powerful, uneven pressure.
Ovid tells us, in his 'Fasti,' how statues sometimes surprised people by speaking more frankly and to the purpose even than Miss Brandon, and straight were cold chiselled marble again.
Wylder arms, projecting in bold relief, in the centre, and a florid scroll, with 'RESURGAM' standing forth as sharp as the day it was chiselled nearly three hundred years before.
Alone, in such remotest waters, that though you sailed a thousand miles, and passed a thousand shores, you would not come to any chiselled hearth-stone, or aught hospitable beneath that part of the sun.
There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness.
Duffy's joking remark died on his lips when he glanced at Aurelianus and saw the lines of weariness that seemed chiselled into the stony face.
You might just as well say to a sculptor, 'Here is a piece of marble, make a Venus, and let her expression be shewn before the features are chiselled.
She was exceedingly beautiful, and her features were as perfectly chiselled as Armelline's, but Armelline was possessed of a delicate and subtle charm of feature peculiar to herself.
This the man threw back, disclosing a pale oval of a face, with calm, delicately chiselled features.
All three shared the low, wide forehead, intelligent eyes, finely chiselled lips and thin, almost aquiline nose: they had no negroid characteristics whatsoever, were almost certainly of unmixed Arabian descent.
They had chiselled away every portrait of the false pharaoh and expunged his name from the walls and tall hypostyle columns.