"It is a very thick wall," she acknowledged as she inspected it, hammer and chisel in hand.
To chisel incessantly; to stick to something with persistence
She lay back again and stuck the chisel in her mouth.
But as he stood there, he heard the sound of a hammer pounding a14 chisel into the hard surface, and felt himself being changed.
He could sense the right place to hit so that the rock crust would cleave and reveal the coal, in the same way that a sculptor can sense exactly where to hammer a chisel into a stone.
Adam won't allow anyone to chisel in on his profits.
Raw materials were moved into empty houses. Some people took tape measures inch by inch to mark them. Others took hammers to chisel in the walls.
