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chis·el
[chiz-uhl] noun, verb, chis·eled, chis·el·ing or (especially British) chis·elled, chis·el·ling. noun
1.
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.
3.
(initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Caelum.
verb (used with object)
4.
to cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel.
5.
to cheat or swindle (someone): He chiseled me out of fifty dollars.
6.
to get (something) by cheating or trickery: He chiseled fifty dollars out of me.
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Chisel
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verb (used without object)
7.
to work with a chisel.
8.
to trick; cheat.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Anglo-French, variant of Old French cisel < Vulgar Latin *cīsellus, diminutive of *cīsus, for Latin caesus, past participle of caedere to cut, with -ī- generalized from prefixed derivatives; compare excide
1325–75; Middle English < Anglo-French, variant of Old French cisel < Vulgar Latin *cīsellus, diminutive of *cīsus, for Latin caesus, past participle of caedere to cut, with -ī- generalized from prefixed derivatives; compare excide
Related forms
chis·el·like, adjective
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| Main Entry: | chisel |
| Part of Speech: | v |
| Definition: | See chizzle |
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Word Origin & History
chisel
1323, from O.Fr. cisel, from V.L. *cisellum "cutting tool," from L. caesellum, dim. of caesus pp. of caedere "to cut" (see concise). Slang sense of "to cheat, defraud" is first recorded in 1808 as chizzel; origin and connection to the older word are obscure.
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CHISEL definition
languageAn extension of C for VLSI design, implemented as a C preprocessor. It produces CIF as output.
["CHISEL - An Extension to the Programming language C for VLSI Layout", K. Karplus, PHD Thesis, Stanford U, 1982].
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