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chis·el  (chzl) n. A metal tool with a sharp beveled edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal. v. chis·eled or chis·elled, chis·el·ing or chis·el·ling, chis·els 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 *csellus, cutting tool, from diminutive of Latin caesus, past participle of caedere, to cut; see ka-id- in Indo-European roots.] chisel·er n.

chisel left: cold metal chisel with a flat head top to bottom: cape, round-nose, and diamond-point metal chisel heads

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chisel

Noun

a metal tool with a sharp end for shaping wood or stone

Verb

[-elling, -elled] or US [-eling, -eled]

to carve or form with a chisel [Latin caesus cut]

Thesaurus

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, gip, goldbrick, gyp, 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"

Translations

chisel [ˈtʃɪzl] n (for wood) → escoplo;

(for stone) → cincel m

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chisel [ˈtʃɪzl] n → ciseau m

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chisel [ˈtʃɪzl] n (for stone) → Meißel m;

(for wood) → Beitel m

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chisel [ˈtʃɪzl] n → cesello