chisel
a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
Chisel, Astronomy. the constellation Caelum.
to cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel.
to cheat or swindle (someone): He chiseled me out of fifty dollars.
to get (something) by cheating or trickery: He chiseled fifty dollars out of me.
Origin of chisel
1Other words from chisel
- chis·el-like, chis·el·like, adjective
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How to use chisel in a sentence
First, researchers must use hammers and chisels to break off pieces of packrat tar.
What’s in a packrat’s petrified pee? Just a few thousand years of secrets. | Rachel Feltman | August 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceTheir tools included a chisel and a green plastic rake that Péray had appropriated from his children’s sandcastle equipment.
Before modern machinery, sledgehammers, wedges and chisels were the only tools available.
Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home | Walter Nicklin | April 2, 2021 | Washington PostA compact ice chisel should always be a part of your backpacking gearThe best ice pick for backpacking trips should have a foldable, portable design or be part of a set of foldable tools that are both durable and lightweight.
Best ice pick: A versatile winter tool for camping and more | PopSci Commerce Team | February 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceStick to the basics and get a toolbox that includes a good utility knife or rotary cutter, a diamond chisel, a scratch awl, needles, and thread.
Everything you need to know to start leatherworking | Sandra Gutierrez G. | February 19, 2021 | Popular-Science
She also was handy, hammering nails into walls and using a heat gun to chisel glue off the floor.
The Wonderful Weirdness of Christine McConnell, Queen of Creepy Cookies | Tim Teeman | July 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBen Affleck can be an adequately chisel-jawed buffoon in spandex.
Ben Affleck Isn’t the Worst Thing to Happen to Batman | Sujay Kumar | August 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYou get two to three hours in a little studio to chisel away.
He stood up, crowbar in hand, and inserted the chisel blade of the implement between the edge of the door and the doorcase.
Dope | Sax RohmerThe round form of many of the latter is especially remarkable: they almost seem to have been cut out with a chisel.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferAt length, it was proposed by Dan Tyron to send for the stone cutter, and get him to cut them out of the wall with a chisel.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousJones then went aft to a locker near the stern, whence he returned with a mallet and chisel, and went below.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneAnd sometimes they used the broad end of the brow antler instead of a stone chisel.
The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
British Dictionary definitions for chisel
/ (ˈtʃɪzəl) /
a hand tool for working wood, consisting of a flat steel blade with a cutting edge attached to a handle of wood, plastic, etc. It is either struck with a mallet or used by hand
a similar tool without a handle for working stone or metal
to carve (wood, stone, metal, etc) or form (an engraving, statue, etc) with or as with a chisel
slang to cheat or obtain by cheating
Origin of chisel
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