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chi zuhl

  • n  an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
  • v  engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
    Who's chiseling on the side?
  • v  deprive somebody of something by deceit
    They chiseled me out of my money
  • v  carve with a chisel
    chisel the marble

  • A chisel of the same size was used to mortise the rungs into the uprights.
  • In the celebration that ensued, tens of thousands poured across the boundary and began to dance and chisel away the wall tearing down 28 years of deadly separation and ushering .
  • But after several days, when he had heard no sound of hammer and chisel, the king flung open the doors.
News & Articles

  • Stone exhibit enhances fest
    “Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.” — Victor Hugo BEDFORD ...
    June 14, 2013 - Bedford Times-Mail
  • New iPhone apps worth downloading: Clipchat, Chisel, Runaway: A Road Adventure
    The first notable game up for download today is fun new messenger Clipchat, which lets you share short video clips with your friends securely and hassle free. We've also got a fairly comprehensive note taking app for all you students called Chisel, and it's quite intuitive.
    June 12, 2013 - appolicious
  • New iPhone apps worth downloading: Chipchat, Chisel, Runaway: A Road Adventure
    The first notable game up for download today is fun new messenger Clipchat, which lets you share short video clips with your friends securely and hassle free. We've also got a fairly comprehensive note taking app for all you students called Chisel, and it's quite intuitive.
    June 12, 2013 - appolicious
Quotes

  • Alberto Contador in SI.com
    I'm ahead of almost all the main contenders and I managed to chisel out a few seconds,Contador said.
  • Judy Baar Topinka in FOXNews
    Roland wants an office. It's another thing to chisel on his Ramses II pyramid,said Judy Baar Topinka, a former Illinois state treasurer and Republican candidate for governor.
  • Ben Nelson in FOXNews
    He assured me that he wants to go to the bench without a political agenda, that he is not bringing a hammer and chisel to hammer away and chisel away on existing law, that he wants to decide each case as it comes before him,Nelson said.

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