chisel
a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
Chisel, Astronomy. the constellation Caelum.
to cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel.
to cheat or swindle (someone): He chiseled me out of fifty dollars.
to get (something) by cheating or trickery: He chiseled fifty dollars out of me.
Origin of chisel
1Other words from chisel
- chis·el-like, chis·el·like, adjective
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How to use chisel in a sentence
Using a stitching groover and a diamond chisel, which are relatively inexpensive, can be quite helpful when it comes to getting clean stitching.
Everything you need to know to start leatherworking | Sandra Gutierrez G. | February 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn 1902, deep in the Mojave Desert in California, a man named William Henry Schmidt began chiseling.
An artist in New Mexico has spent decades chiseling out fantastical caves from the mountains, one pickaxe swing at a time.
There was in both the same irony of lip line, the same fair chiseling of chin and nostril and brow, the same weariness of eye.
Zut and Other Parisians | Guy Wetmore CarrylFire lapped the sculptured screen inside the western doors, and the lovely lavish chiseling has become a blurred, amorphous mass.
How France Built Her Cathedrals | Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
From Ruskin: "The sharpest, finest chiseling, and patientest fusing;" "distantest relationships;" "sorrowfulest spectacles."
An English Grammar | W. M. Baskervill and J. W. SewellThis chiseling out of streets in such abrupt fashion is puzzling to the person with notions of how tropical people behave.
The Pacific Triangle | Sydney GreenbieA red-breasted woodpecker was chiseling out a nursery in a tall sycamore at the border of a woodland.
Our Bird Comrades | Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
British Dictionary definitions for chisel
/ (ˈtʃɪzəl) /
a hand tool for working wood, consisting of a flat steel blade with a cutting edge attached to a handle of wood, plastic, etc. It is either struck with a mallet or used by hand
a similar tool without a handle for working stone or metal
to carve (wood, stone, metal, etc) or form (an engraving, statue, etc) with or as with a chisel
slang to cheat or obtain by cheating
Origin of chisel
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