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chisel

[chiz-uhl]

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noun

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 plow.

(initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Caelum.

verb (used with object)

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.

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verb (used without object)

to work with a chisel.

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

Related forms

chis·el·like, adjective

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Example Sentences

Striking nails with the blade of a chisel will damage the tool.

Physicists have been trying to chisel away at the paradox for many years with little success.

Hart uses a large, two-handed chisel to carve an eagle to place at the top of the totem pole.

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Striking nails with the blade of a chisel will damage the tool.

Physicists have been trying to chisel away at the paradox for many years with little success.

Hart uses a large, two-handed chisel to carve an eagle to place at the top of the totem pole.

Catull borrows elements from traditional writing instruments such as the quill and the chisel with a modern twist.

Chisel away any mortar from the cavity where the new stone is to go.

But each spring the scientists return and have to chisel out their work space from solid ice.

Slope the sides of the area with the chisel so that the area to be filled is larger at the bottom than at the surface.

Ensconced at his workbench, surrounded by antique tools and curled aromatic shards of wood, he put down his chisel to listen.

Remove the crumbled sections using a masonry chisel and hammer, and brush debris from cracks using a whisk broom and wire brush.

Use a chisel to cut a notch about one-inch wide in the fire stop.

Use a cold chisel and a small sledgehammer to cut through between the holes.

If necessary, break or chisel crumbling stucco away so that the sides of the damaged area are sound.

Be careful with the chisel so you don't damage the adjacent boards or the.

Sharpening a chisel or plane is done by removing metal from the sloping or beveled edge of the blade.

He sharpened his pencils with a paring knife, as if it were some crude tool or chisel.

Remove this waste with a chisel to expose the edge of the stud or joist.

Other times, they're reaching for a mallet and chisel.

Brancusi would show me for instance precisely how a chisel should be held and how to true a plane of limestone.

One part of my job was to chisel a big chunk of frozen beef liver into salamander-scale bites.

They carved it with tiny light-catching chisel marks.

To reach them, use a cold chisel and ball-peen hammer to chip away any tiles or mortar surrounding them.

Remove the door then chisel out the mortises for the hinge leaves.

Another strategy is to open a narrow horizontal channel in the wall and notch the studs with a chisel to accept the cable.

Notch the edges of the studs with a chisel so that the brace fits flush with or slightly below their surfaces.

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chisel (ˈtʃɪz^əl)

—n
1.	a. 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
	b. a similar tool without a handle for working stone or metal

—vb , -els, -elling, -elled, -els, -eling, -eled
2.	to carve (wood, stone, metal, etc) or form (an engraving, statue, etc) with or as with a chisel
3.	slang to cheat or obtain by cheating

[C14: via Old French, from Vulgar Latin cīsellus (unattested), from Latin caesus cut, from caedere to cut]

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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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Computing Dictionary

CHISEL definition

language
An 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].
(2006-09-19)

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