Nov 19, 2006 23:30
17 yrs ago
German term
Meißelarbeit
German to English
Art/Literary
Archaeology
The context is the 3rd-c. AD workshops at Chemtou, where they are making marble bowls and statuettes, and one of the stages of working represented by production debris is “Grobe und feine Meisselarbeit” – it must mean something like “Coarse and fine shaping/roughing-out/forming” ?
Proposed translations
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| 3 +2 | chisel work |
Jonathan MacKerron
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| 4 +3 | chiseling |
swisstell
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Change log
Nov 19, 2006 23:48: Kim Metzger changed "Term asked" from "Meisselarbeit" to "Meißelarbeit"
Nov 20, 2006 08:42: Steffen Walter changed "Field (write-in)" from "Meisselarbeit" to "(none)"
Proposed translations
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8 hrs
Jonathan MacKerron
Native in English
Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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10
Selected
chisel work
gets lots of googles in association with archeology
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+3
5 mins
German term (edited):
Meisselarbeit
chiseling
rough and fine chiseling
Peer comment(s):
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Kim Metzger
: Since kschorle doesn't specialize in German, we should add that a Meißel is a chisel and the work can be called chiseling, carving, shaping. http://www.stoneshaper.com/how.html
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you don't say! Also cutting, paring, gouging, engraving, scoring and probably more ... but I chose chiseling because it is the most appropriate with marble.
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Bernhard Sulzer
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thanks Bernhard!
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
14 hrs
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herzlichen Dank, Ingeborg!
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