Word: chiselling
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...callus at the base of the left little finger indicates a stone cutter, who braces his chisel with his little finger. Other characteristic calluses: the house painter's on the front of both shins where he leans on his ladder ; the trumpet or tuba player's near the tip of the right little finger, where the finger presses against a small hook to steady the instrument; the writer's (or student's or bookkeeper's) on the side of the right middle finger; the French horn player's in the corresponding spot...
Infield Out. In Kansas City, Mo., Joe Infield got his head wedged in the bars of his bed. His wife, his mother-in-law, ten neighbors, two cops, a hacksaw, a chisel, and a hammer finally freed...
...young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a tip-toe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him clouds of glory, this happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land...
...drove the pigs and chickens out of the house, went to work without instruments or medicines. For antiseptic he used salt water. Bandages were washed in a creek, re-used until they fell apart. His instruments: a carpenter's hammer, a hack saw, chisels. ("In fractures we hammered house nails through bones. ... To chip away the bone we used an ordinary chisel...
...Aleutians they swung from ropes to chisel footholes in the solid rock of steep cliffs, and working on the mountain's precipitous wall in a driving rain constructed a track for a traveling carriage...