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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

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 cold chisel is tempered to a blue, and answers virtually to the machinist’s chisel.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Then we looked out a nice flagstone in the stable-yard, and we got a cold-chisel out of the dentist's tool-box, and began.

From The Wouldbegoods by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

Ting, ting, ting, fell the hammer on the cold-chisel; the soft, wet sandstone peeled off in curling flakes; the quick strokes rang like a bell through the cool and cleanly air.

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

"Yes, it was a cold-chisel that did it," said Neil.

From Behind the line A story of college life and football by Barbour, Ralph Henry

"Queer kind of break; looks like you'd pried the link apart with a cold-chisel."

From Behind the line A story of college life and football by Barbour, Ralph Henry

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