Word: chiseling
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...stone-wrought verse of "The Raven": "Dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before." The "s" in "mortals" offended Mr. Fontaine. He hated its sibilance, knew that there was no "s" in Poe's original version. So Mr. Fontaine determinedly edited out the "s" with a chisel. A policeman arrested him for defacing the public monument...
...Newfoundland which was unquestionably crossed by very recent ice. Here (at Burgeo) the granitic hills are absolutely stripped of all soil and rotten rock-mantle, and the conspicuously striated ledges contain gourges which look as if they might have been hacked only yesterday by a sharp mattock or heavy chisel. In this region, too, great boulders as large as small houses are scattered irregularly over the hills, the boulders having fresh and undecayed surfaces...
...creator of the sobriquet 'Tiger' with a capital 'T' as applied to M. Clémenceau." said Editor Emile Buré of the Paris daily L'Avenor last week. "I am proud of the achievement! It will perhaps furnish the only chisel ever likely to cut my name in the granite of History...
...Matthew Williams Stirling flew to the island's mountain reaches. The little men overcame their suspicions of the big explorer. They offered him their bananas, sugar cane and taro, cultivated and prepared with the only three tools they knew of-an axe, a flat, curved knife, a chisel, all made of stone. They made him fire by rubbing sticks together. They showed him how they cremated their little dead. And they laughed as they entertained him. He offered them modern steel tools. They shyly asked for bright shells and beads. He learned a few of their phrases-short words...
...advantages of such a pneumatic hammer-chisel in the hands of the bone surgeon are: abundant power under perfect control; speeding without tendency of charring the bone that is being cut; accurate tooling of the bone with a minimal risk of accidental fracture; ability to operate in deep wounds through small openings...