chisellingchiselingn.
/ˈtʃɪzəlɪŋ/ Cutting or working with a chisel. Also concrete. Chiselled work.
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the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > shaping by or as by cutting
hewingc1440
chiselling1835
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > processes or techniques
hatchet work1697
bossage1704
rusticating1749
boasting1823
chiselling1835
marmotinto1844
pointing1845
modelling1865
petroglyphy1882
pointillé1893
ganosis1911
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptures collectively
sculptilea1340
imageryc1350
sculpture1390
sculptury1623
chiselling1872
1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. xxxii. 224 His features are of the clearest Greek chiselling.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ii. 34 His features..have..regularity in their chiseling.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. v. xlvii. 74 Some bit of chiselling or engraving.
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