Chisel

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: chis=el

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]

Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

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.

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, wrinkle

ROGET 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.