She saw a bestial snout, chisel-like teeth, and bristles. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
Modern beavers have chisel-like teeth for gnawing on wood. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
They have a single root and the crown is beveled behind, presenting a chisel-like edge. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
It is owing to this principle that the edges of the rodent teeth preserve their chisel-like form. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference
Then you may see the woodpecker hammering with his chisel-like bill, making a home in some dead tree. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
While compiling the book, Cooper obtained a police report, dated July 23, 1954, that says police made a casting of a chisel-like mark found on a basement door. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting 'The Fugitive'] Reference
The black warrior had one frenzied glimpse of champing, foaming jaws, of great chisel-like tusks, of small, piggish eyes that blazed with red fury through the dark. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
They start with a battering stick, then a use a chisel-like stick, followed by a hard-pointed stick, finally ending with a long slender flexible dip stick to pull out the honey. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Schweitzer: An Octopus Garden on 61 Virginis] Reference
The chisel-like knife is usually actuated by a cam rotating with the main shaft, and one or two of the usual forms of this attachment are to be seen here this evening on both lock and loop stitch machines. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference
Their stout, chisel-like bills allow them to bore into wood. From Wordnik.com. Reference
One held the stone in his left hand and placed a chisel-like instrument at the proper point. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
There were above and below, in front, six small chisel-like teeth, which we call "the incisors.". From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
The kabouter at once got out his saw, hatchet, auger, long, chisel-like knife, and smoothing plane. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks] Reference
With horns and sharp, chisel-like hoofs, he is able to make a gallant fight, as we have already seen in the case of the deer and wolves. From Wordnik.com. [Three Boys in the Wild North Land] Reference
Of other teeth it had only the two moderate-sized front tusks above and two very big, chisel-like "incisors" in the front of the lower jaw. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
Given the chisel-like point, I figured that they would be good for prying as well as brute force penetrating things like sheet metal, wood and masonry. From Wordnik.com. [Kit Up] Reference
Muscular valves close the ears, nose and mouth while underwater, and beavers 'lips close behind their huge chisel-like teeth so they can gnaw while submerged. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Wrapped around the cylinder was a sheet of tinfoil, with which engaged a small chisel-like recording needle, connected adhesively with the centre of an iron diaphragm. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
They are especially characterised by the possession of a single pair of chisel-like cutting teeth in each jaw, between which and the grinding teeth there is a great gap. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume] Reference
If posts be put into the ground within range of their nightly rambles they will gnaw till they have felled them, unless of a wood hard enough to resist their chisel-like incisors. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
No two arrangements of teeth could be much more unlike than are the group of eight little chisel-like teeth of the lower jaw of the Ruminants and the two enormous gnawing teeth of the Rodents. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
The idea of forming the record on tinfoil had been early abandoned, and in its stead was substituted a cylinder of wax-like material, in which the record was cut by a minute chisel-like gouging tool. From Wordnik.com. [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference
The master of the pool would turn up a fierce eye, and watch the swimmer's progress breaking the golden surface into long, parabolic ripples; but he was too wise to court a trial of the muskrat's long, chisel-like teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference
Selecting a part of a tree which is decayed -- sometimes a portion of the bole quite close to the ground -- the woodpecker hews out with its chisel-like beak a neat circular tunnel leading to the cavity in the decayed wood in which the eggs will be deposited. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
'celt,' that chisel-like weapon whose shape so closely resembles the front teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
"Thick, chisel-like teeth flashed. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat is a Metaphor] Reference
"Only those short, chisel-like white chips. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat is a Metaphor] Reference
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