Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
chisel .
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Have they a Peak Hill or a chesil over their stream?
Sanditon 1817
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Jesse Kornbluth: Philip Roth's The Humbling Is, At 140 Pages, His Best Book In Years 2009
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Jesse Kornbluth: Philip Roth's The Humbling Is, At 140 Pages, His Best Book In Years 2009
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"The stream that flows from old Sanditon and is blocked by the chesil where it reaches the open sea?
Sanditon 1817
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