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Chisel
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Chisel
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Chisel has 1 sense
- chisel(n = noun.artifact) Array - an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge; Array has particulars: burin, cold chisel, set chisel, drove, drove chisel, firmer chisel, ripping chisel, wood chisel
is a kind of edge tool
Derived form verb chisel3
Verb Chisel has 3 senses
- chisel(v = verb.social) cheat - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" is one way to cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
- chisel(v = verb.social) cheat, rip off - 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" is one way to victimise, victimize
- chisel(v = verb.contact) Array - carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble" is one way to carve, chip at
Derived forms noun chiseler1, noun chiseller1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
Derived forms noun chiseler1, noun chiseller1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Derived form noun chisel1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Chisel, n. [OF. chisel, F. ciseau, fr. LL. cisellus, prob. for caesellus, fr. L. caesus, p. p. of caedere to cut. Cf. Scissors.].
A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. [1913 Webster]
Chisel, v. t. [Cf. F. ciseler.].
- To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue. [1913 Webster]
- To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Chisel, n. & v.
--n. a hand tool with a squared bevelled blade for shaping wood, stone, or metal.
--v.
1 tr. (chiselled, chiselling; US chiseled, chiseling) cut or shape with a chisel.
2 tr. (as chiselled adj.) (of facial features) clear-cut, fine.
3 tr. & intr. sl. cheat, swindle.
--n. a hand tool with a squared bevelled blade for shaping wood, stone, or metal.
--v.
1 tr. (chiselled, chiselling; US chiseled, chiseling) cut or shape with a chisel.
2 tr. (as chiselled adj.) (of facial features) clear-cut, fine.
3 tr. & intr. sl. cheat, swindle.
Derivative
chiseller n.
Etymology
ME f. ONF ult. f. LL cisorium f. L caedere caes- cut
THESAURUS
Chisel
assemble, autolithograph, bamboozle, be a printmaker, beat, beguile of, bilk, block out, bunco, burn, canal, canalize, carve, cast, chamfer, channel, character, chase, cheat, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, convert, corrugate, cozen, crack, crease, create, crib, cribble, crimp, crosshatch, cultivate, cut, dado, defraud, diddle, dike, ditch, do, do in, do out of, dupe, efform, enchase, engrave, euchre, extract, fashion, figure, finagle, fix, flam, fleece, flimflam, flute, fob, fool, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, fudge, furrow, gash, grave, groove, grow, gull, gully, gyp, harvest, hatch, have, hew, hocus, hocus-pocus, incise, inscribe, insculpture, knead, knock out, lay out, lick into shape, line, lithograph, machine, make prints, mallet, mark, mill, mine, mint, model, modeling clay, mold, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pare, pigeon, pleat, plow, point, practice fraud upon, print, process, pump, rabbet, raise, rear, refine, rifle, rook, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rut, scam, score, scrape, scratch, screw, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, sell gold bricks, set, shape, shave, shortchange, slit, smelt, solder, soldering iron, spatula, stack the cards, stamp, stick, sting, stipple, streak, striate, swindle, tailor, take a dive, thermoform, thimblerig, throw a fight, tool, trench, trick, trough, victimize, weld, work, wrinkleROGET THESAURUS
Chisel
Production
VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.Form
VB form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast, rough hew, rough cast, sketch, block out, hammer out, trim, lick into shape, put into shape, model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture, cast, stamp, build.Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.Perforator
N perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet, punch, puncheon, spikebit, gouge, spear, puncher, punching machine, punching press, punch pliers.Sculpture
VB sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold, cast.
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