chisel

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A wood chisel

Two cold chisels

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪzəl

From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors.

chisel (plural chisels)

1. A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
2. A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
   1. A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.

      Holonyms: plough, plow < implement

      Comeronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter

• burin
• gouge
• graver

chisel (third-person singular simple present chisels, present participle chiseling or chiselling, simple past and past participle chiseled or chiselled)

1. (intransitive) To use a chisel.

   Synonym: chip (dialectal)

2. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.

   Synonym: chip (dialectal)

   She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.

3. (transitive, dated) To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something).
4. (transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.

   Synonym: chip away

   Laws that protect the environment are being chiseled away.

5. (ambitransitive, informal) To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.

   He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere.

   She can always chisel whatever she needs from her father.

   She's always either chiseling or groveling, it seems.

chiselling and chiselled are more common in the UK while chiseling and chiseled are more common in the US.

• chiseler, chiseller
• chisel in, chisel out, chisel up
• rechisel

From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosol, ċeosel, ċysel, ċisel, ċisil (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“small stone, pebble”). See also chessom.

• chesil
• chissel, chessil (dialectal)

chisel (usually uncountable, plural chisels)

1. Gravel.
2. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.

• chessom

• “chisel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “chisel”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “chisel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• lechis, sichel, chesil, chiels, Chiles, Schiel, elchis, liches, chiles, Schlei

• chesel, chiseel, chesell, chisal, chesal

From Anglo-Norman chisel.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈzɛːl/, /ˈt͡ʃizɛl/, /ˈt͡ʃeːzɛl/

chisel (plural chisels)

1. Any of several cutting tools used by stone masons.

• English: chisel
• Yola: chisool

• “chisē̆l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

chisel oblique singular, m (oblique plural chiseaus or chiseax or chisiaus or chisiax or chisels, nominative singular chiseaus or chiseax or chisiaus or chisiax or chisels, nominative plural chisel)

1. (Old Northern French) Alternative form of cisel