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Chisel

Chisel Meaning & Definition
Chisel Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Chisel?

[n] an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
[v] carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
[v] 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"
[v] engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Chisel: beat | cheat | rip off

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | beguile | bilk | bunco | burin | carve | cold chisel | con | cook | cozen | crib | cut up | deceive | defraud | delude | diddle | drove | drove chisel | edge tool | fake | falsify | firmer chisel | fleece | fudge | gazump | goldbrick | gyp | hoodwink | hook | job | juggle | lead on | manipulate | misrepresent | mulct | nobble | overcharge | pluck | plume | rig | ripping chisel | rob | rook | scam | set chisel | set up | shark | soak | surcharge | swindle | victimise | victimize | wangle | welsh | whipsaw | wood chisel

Chisel In Webster's Dictionary

\Chis"el\, 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. {Cold chisel}. See under {Cold}, a.
\Chis"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chiseled}, or {Chiselled} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Chiseling}, or {Chiselling}.] [Cf. F. ciseler.] 1. To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue. 2. To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. [Slang]

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