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• cold chisel
  cold chisel

  noun

  a steel chisel used on cold metal.
• cold-chisel
  cold-chisel

  verb (used with object)

  to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.

cold chisel

¹ American  

noun

1. a steel chisel used on cold metal.

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cold-chisel ² American  

[kohld-chiz-uhl] / ˈkoʊldˌtʃɪz əl /

verb (used with object)

cold-chiseled, cold-chiseling, cold-chiselled, cold-chiselling

1. to work upon (metal) with a cold chisel.

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cold chisel British  

noun

1. a toughened steel chisel

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Etymology

Origin of cold-chisel

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

Let the cold chisel away your weakness, leaving behind a lean, wolflike creature ready to take a bite out of life.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2015

The caretaker had to chip it off with a cold chisel.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2011

When he was a boy on a Kentucky farm, Dawn used to take a cold chisel, hammer and spoon over to the creek bank and chop faces in soft sandstone.

From Time Magazine Archive

An effort to analyze her art is like breaking up butterfly wings with a cold chisel.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Chisel.—The machinist’s cold chisel is made from the two forms of steel shown in Figs.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua