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chisel

left: cold metal chisel with a flat head

top to bottom: cape, round-nose, and diamond-point metal chisel heads

chis·el

(chĭz′əl)

A metal tool with a sharp beveled edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal.

v. chis·eled, chis·el·ing, chis·els or chis·elled or chis·el·ling

v.tr.

1. To shape or cut with a chisel.

2. Informal

a. To cheat or swindle.

b. To obtain by deception.

v.intr.

1. To use a chisel.

2. Informal

a. To use unethical methods; cheat: "who's up, who's down and who's chiseling on the side" (James Reston).

b. To intrude oneself without welcome: always tries to chisel in on our conversations.

[Middle English, from Old French cisiel, from Vulgar Latin *cīsellus, cutting tool, from diminutive of Latin caesus, past participle of caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.]

chis′el·er n.

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chisel

(ˈtʃɪzəl)

(Tools)

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 or -elled, -els, -eling or -eled

1. (Crafts) to carve (wood, stone, metal, etc) or form (an engraving, statue, etc) with or as with a chisel

2. 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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chis•el

art at chlamys

(ˈtʃɪz əl)

n., v. -eled, -el•ing (esp. Brit.) -elled, -el•ling. n.

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.

v.t.

2. to cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel.

3. Slang.

a. to cheat or swindle (someone).

b. to get by cheating or trickery.

v.i.

4. to work with a chisel.

5. Slang. to trick; cheat.

[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 (-ī- generalized from prefixed derivatives)]

chis′el•er; esp. Brit., chis′el•ler, n.

chis′el•like`, adj.

chisel

Past participle: chiselled
Gerund: chiselling

Imperative
chisel
chisel

Present
I chisel
you chisel
he/she/it chisels
we chisel
you chisel
they chisel

Preterite
I chiselled
you chiselled
he/she/it chiselled
we chiselled
you chiselled
they chiselled

Present Continuous
I am chiselling
you are chiselling
he/she/it is chiselling
we are chiselling
you are chiselling
they are chiselling

Present Perfect
I have chiselled
you have chiselled
he/she/it has chiselled
we have chiselled
you have chiselled
they have chiselled

Past Continuous
I was chiselling
you were chiselling
he/she/it was chiselling
we were chiselling
you were chiselling
they were chiselling

Past Perfect
I had chiselled
you had chiselled
he/she/it had chiselled
we had chiselled
you had chiselled
they had chiselled

Future
I will chisel
you will chisel
he/she/it will chisel
we will chisel
you will chisel
they will chisel

Future Perfect
I will have chiselled
you will have chiselled
he/she/it will have chiselled
we will have chiselled
you will have chiselled
they will have chiselled

Future Continuous
I will be chiselling
you will be chiselling
he/she/it will be chiselling
we will be chiselling
you will be chiselling
they will be chiselling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been chiselling
you have been chiselling
he/she/it has been chiselling
we have been chiselling
you have been chiselling
they have been chiselling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been chiselling
you will have been chiselling
he/she/it will have been chiselling
we will have been chiselling
you will have been chiselling
they will have been chiselling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been chiselling
you had been chiselling
he/she/it had been chiselling
we had been chiselling
you had been chiselling
they had been chiselling

Conditional
I would chisel
you would chisel
he/she/it would chisel
we would chisel
you would chisel
they would chisel

Past Conditional
I would have chiselled
you would have chiselled
he/she/it would have chiselled
we would have chiselled
you would have chiselled
they would have chiselled

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Noun	1.	chisel - an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge burin - a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving cold chisel, set chisel - narrow chisel made of steel; used to cut stone or bricks drove chisel, drove - a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone edge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) firmer chisel - a chisel with a thin blade for woodworking ripping chisel - a long chisel with a slightly bent cutting end; used for heavy prying or cleaning mortises wood chisel - a chisel for working wood; it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand
Verb	1.	chisel - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" cheat job - profit privately from public office and official business shark - play the shark; act with trickery rig, set up - arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election" cozen - act with artful deceit crib - use a crib, as in an exam cozen, deceive, delude, lead on - be false to; be dishonest with fudge, fake, falsify, misrepresent, wangle, manipulate, cook - tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
	2.	chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" cheat, rip off gazump - raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price cozen - cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man" fleece, gazump, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, hook, pluck - rip off; ask an unreasonable price bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, swindle, short-change, victimize - deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" bilk - cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money bunk, beat - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" whipsaw - victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations welch, welsh - cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt victimise, victimize - make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man" beguile, hoodwink, juggle - influence by slyness
	3.	chisel - carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble" chip at, carve - engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark"

chisel

verb

Informal. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery:

bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize.

Informal: flimflam, take, trim.

Slang: diddle, do, gyp, stick, sting.

Translations

إِزْمِيلإزْميليَقْطَعُ ، يَنْحَتُ بالأزْميل

dlátorýčrýtdlabat

mejselmejslestemmestemmejern

Meißel meißeln Stemmeisen

σμίλη

cincel

talttahuijatataltata

ciseler ciseau burin buriner tailler

dlijetlodlijeto

vésõvéső

meitill; sporjárnmeitla; spora, skera

scalpello cesello imbrogliare scalpellare cesellare

鑿

끌

caelum

iškaltikaltikćltas

kaltkalts

daltă

долото стамеска зубило

dlatodláto

dleto

mejsel

สิ่ว

keskikeski ile yontmak/oymakçelik kalem

đục

凿子凿

chisel

[ˈtʃɪzl] (chiselled (Brit) or chiseled (US) (vb: pt, pp))

A. N (for wood) → formón m, escoplo m; (for stone) → cincel m

B. VT

1. (also chisel out) [+ wood] → tallar; [+ stone] → cincelar; (= carve) → tallar, labrar
chiselled features (fig) → facciones fpl marcadas

2. (= swindle) → timar, estafar

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chisel

[ˈtʃɪz^əl] n → ciseau m

chisel

n → Meißel m; (for wood) → Beitel m

vt → meißeln; (in wood) → stemmen; her finely chiselled features → ihr fein geschnittenes Gesicht

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chisel

[ˈtʃɪzl]

1. n → scalpello; (smaller) → cesello; (for engraving) → bulino

2. vt (chiselled, Am chiseled (pt, pp)) (also chisel out) → scolpire, cesellare, incidere con il bulino

chisel

(ˈtʃizl) noun

a tool with a cutting edge at the end.

verb – past tense, past participle ˈchiselled , (American) ˈchiseled –

to cut or carve (wood etc) with a chisel.

chisel

→ إِزْمِيل dláto mejsel Meißel σμίλη cincel taltta burin dlijetlo scalpello 鑿 끌 beitel meisel dłuto cinzel долото mejsel สิ่ว keski đục 凿子

chis·el

n. cincel.

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Their sides are quite smooth, but though square, and of pretty regular formation, they bear no mark of the chisel. They are laid together without cement, and here and there show gaps between.

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Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was like in the light of day, I found him to be a dry man, rather short in stature, with a square wooden face, whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel. There were some marks in it that might have been dimples, if the material had been softer and the instrument finer, but which, as it was, were only dints.

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Now that which is inevitable in the work has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give, inasmuch as the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race.

The old tragic Necessity, which lowers on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique, and furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures into nature,--namely, that they were inevitable; that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which he could not resist, and which vented itself in these fine extravagances,--no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.

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She looked, indeed, like one of those wonderful boys of the Italian Renaissance, whom you may still see at the National Gallery, whose beauty is no denial, but rather the stamp of their slender, supple strength, young painters and sculptors who held the palette for Leonardo, or wielded the chisel for Michelangelo, and anon threw both aside to take up sword for Guelf or Ghibelline in the narrow streets of Florence.

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"Ah, Princess Mary!" he said suddenly in an unnatural voice, throwing down his chisel. (The wheel continued to revolve by its own impetus, and Princess Mary long remembered the dying creak of that wheel, which merged in her memory with what followed.)

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"I made myself some; and with the exception of a file, I have all that are necessary, -- a chisel, pincers, and lever."

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Around what capital have you seen foliage more tender and better caressed by the chisel. Here are three raised bosses of Jean Maillevin.

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One evening, however, he rushed in to look for an old chisel, or some corks, or other article essential to his pursuit for the time being, and while rummaging about in the cupboards, looked up for a moment, and was caught at once by the figure of poor little Arthur.

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Her finely chiseled, clean-cut face, with something red Indian about the firm mouth and strongly marked cheek bones, showed even at that distance traces of the friction of the passing years.

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Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure.

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Burden,' he continued, as he sorted and tried his chisels, `was for a fellow in the Black Tiger Mine, up above Silverton, Colorado.