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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A practical mechanic communicates to the Scientific American the following: In hardening and tempering a cold chisel care should be taken to have a gradual shading of temper.

From Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The beaver works with the cold-chisel, and a few clean strokes suffice to level a four-inch bole.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

"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

Which he does this noomerous times, an' every hoof cuts like a cold-chisel.

From Wolfville by Lewis, Alfred Henry

"Mon Dieu!" said the mate, and taking the little fellow to the windlass-bits, succeeded in severing the handcuffs with a cold-chisel, and sent him down into the forecastle to secrete himself.

From Manuel Pereira by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

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