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chiselCutting tool with a sharpened edge at the end of a metal blade, used (often by driving with a mallet or hammer) in dressing, shaping, or working a solid material such as wood, stone, or metal. Flint ancestors of the chisel existed by 8000 BC; the ancient Egyptians used copper and later bronze chisels to work both wood and soft stone. Chisels today are made of steel, in various sizes and degrees of hardness, depending on use.
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| It represents money we currently throw away to downtown chiselers every year. A catalogue published in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1999 exhibition of Renaissance armor inspired by "the forms and ornament found in classical art," this work includes not only photographs from the exhibition, but also extensive background information regarding "Filippo Negroli of Milan, chiseler of arms in iron with leaves and figures," as Vasari termed this innovative armorer from Milan. Principal among the cheaters and chiselers Patman decried were chain grocery stores that, because of more efficient purchasing and distribution organizations, undercut traditional food merchants. |
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