I had a request for information about a spec. calling for "bush hammered
bronze" finish.  As far as I could figure out this was a use of a stone
working technique in metal working.  (Anyone out there better enlightened
than me on this?)  I'm guessing that this is a chased and matted finish or a
rough planished finish but I started thinking about the miss-use of old
technological terms.  The phase "cast in stone" is constantly in print,
there was a recent Wall Street Journal article with that in the head, but,
naturally, stone isn't cast it's carved or cut.  I have seen carved in
stone, set in stone, set in concrete, cast in concrete,  and once I think,
carved in bronze all in print.   Should this idiom be crushed under hand or
held up over head?

Mark