Chasing
[tʃes]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chase
(n.) The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
Edited by Ellis
Examples
- In my haste I thrust the key into my pocket, and dropped my stick while I was chasing Teddy, who had run up the curtain. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It's been chasing me all my life, but it shall never take me nor mine alive! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Did you see what they were chasing him with? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In later years the rolling of screws, instead of cutting the threads by a chasing tool, has attained considerable importance, and provides a simpler and cheaper method of manufacture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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