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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

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he got a rock, and with a hammer and a screwdriver and cold chisel he etched out a cross and Troop's name and the date of his birth and the date of his death.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cold chisel should be sharp as it is used to cut the cast-iron pipe.

From Elements of Plumbing by Dibble, Samuel Edward

He has the same tight, twisted, sickly mouth, the same cold-chisel intellect, the same egotistical integrity.

From Time Magazine Archive

He then told me to hunt in the carpenter’s chest for a file, and a cold-chisel and hammer.

From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by Lacey, C. J. de

He carried a cold-chisel and hammer, but he found no use for them, for the pulley was roped to the deadhead.

From The Iron Trail by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Among the books two volumes on Building Construction might have been remarked upon the settle, together with a tattered copy of Parker's Introduction to Gothic Architecture; among the lumber, a mason's trowel and a cold-chisel.

From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Through triple thicknesses of sacking, he struck a cold-chisel on the face of a rock.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack

Hammarskjold, a polished, professional Swedish diplomat, conferred four times with Chou, the cold-chiseled Communist.

From Time Magazine Archive

His features were cold-chiseled and his coloring was exquisite.

From Ptomaine Street by Wells, Carolyn