chizzel

A stately palace composed the body of the place, and in that palace were porticoes, galleries, halls, and chambers, of an admirable beauty; all was cut in the living stone, and wrought so curiously, that the works seemed to be cast within a mould, and not cut by the chizzel.

The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

A stately palace composed the body of the place, and in that palace were porticoes, galleries, halls, and chambers, of an admirable beauty; all was cut in the living stone, and wrought so curiously, that the works seemed to be cast within a mould, and not cut by the chizzel.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665

If any where through my pifturefque attempts there is at all the main de mditre, there, to me, I fay, it afluredly is; if any of thofe fine lines or ftrokes of the whether pencil or chizzel, any where, even there.

Reflection: A Poem, in Four Cantos ... 1790

The materials are then delivered over to the Potters, where it passes from wheel to wheel and from hand to hand; one applying it to the mold, another thinning it with the chizzel, a third smoothing the edges: thus a cup or saucer shall sometimes pass through seventy hands before it is compleated; each of which uses such dispatch, that a workman at the wheel requires but three deniers [half a farthing] for twenty-six pieces.

Hau Kiou Choaan 1761