chiseller
Britishnoun
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a person who uses a chisel
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informal a cheat
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slang a child
Example Sentences
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The preceding execution had not disturbed him, he had never had much use for Hickock, who seemed to him "a small-time chiseller who got out of his depth, empty and worthless".
From BBC
"Will you swear not to be a rotten little chiseller, and when I say 'bags I asking' next time not go and ask yourself straight off?"
From Project Gutenberg
The warbler earned in those days as little by her voice as the chiseller by his work.
From Project Gutenberg
So he did not move from the table when the chiseller left the room, nor did he make any remark upon the hour.
From Project Gutenberg
And Mendelssohn, that faultless chiseller! a Shakespeare in dancing pumps, whose "songs without words" are gems for women of intellect!
From Project Gutenberg
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