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Chisel
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- 1 A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
- 2 Gravel. uncountable, usually
- 3 an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge wordnet
- 4 A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
- 5 Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour. plural-normally, uncountable, usually
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- 6 A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.; A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.
"Holonyms: plough, plow < implement"
- 1 To use a chisel. intransitive
- 2 carve with a chisel wordnet
- 3 To work something with a chisel. transitive
"She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood."
- 4 deprive somebody of something by deceit wordnet
- 5 To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something). dated, transitive
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- 6 engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud wordnet
- 7 To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time. figuratively, transitive
"Laws that protect the environment are being chiseled away."
- 8 To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating. ambitransitive, informal
"He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere."
Etymology
From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors.
From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors.
From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosol, ċeosel, ċysel, ċisel, ċisil (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“small stone, pebble”). See also chessom.
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