Definitions for chisel

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chisel chis·el

Spelling: [chiz-uh l]

IPA: /ˈtʃɪz əl/

Chisel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in chisel (cehils).

Definitions for chisel

noun

1. a wedgelike tool with a cutting edge at the end of the blade, often made of steel, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, etc.
2. chisel plow.
3. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Caelum.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel.
2. to cheat or swindle (someone):
3. to get (something) by cheating or trickery:

verb (used without object)

1. to work with a chisel.
2. to trick; cheat.

Origin of chisel

1325-75; Middle English Anglo-French, variant of Old French cisel Vulgar Latin *cīsellus, diminutive of *cīsus, for Latin caesus, past participle of caedere to cut, with -ī- generalized from

Examples for chisel

It is better to cut full, and trim down to the lines with a chisel or plane.

Bruno hardly lifted his eyes from his chisel and soft iron hammer.

They saw beauty and pursued it, in colour and sound, by word and chisel.

She also was handy, hammering nails into walls and using a heat gun to chisel glue off the floor.

On this table were some sculptor's tools—a chisel and a small mallet, with which she had been working.

He left the room, and returned in a few moments with a chisel.

But the chisel slipped, the mallet fell too heavily, and he stopped.

But you can cut off a vine-branch with a dagger or with a chisel, and in many other ways?

Jed whistled a few mournful bars and sharpened a chisel on an oilstone.

You get  two to three hours in a little studio to chisel away.