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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

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

What I want you to do is to take the money you have there in your hand and buy a cold chisel or a file—any tools that will cut these things off me.

From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

Search was made for a cold-chisel, but to no purpose.

From A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by De Mille, James

And stop eying those books; you can't get at them with anything less than a cold-chisel!

From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake

After an exhausting two minutes we sent for a cold-chisel….

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

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