chisel

chiselleft: cold metal chisel with a flat headtop to bottom: cape, round-nose, and diamond-point metal chisel heads

chis·el

C0309400 (chĭz′əl)n. A metal tool with a sharp beveled edge, used to cut and shape stone, wood, or metal.v. chis·eled, chis·el·ing, chis·els or chis·elled or chis·el·ling 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.

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[Middle English, from Old French cisiel, from Vulgar Latin *cīsellus, cutting tool, from diminutive of Latin caesus, past participle of caedere, to cut; see kaə-id- in Indo-European roots.]

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chis′el·er n.

chisel

(ˈtʃɪzəl) n (Tools) a. a hand tool for working wood, consisting of a flat steel blade with a cutting edge attached to a handle of wood, plastic, etc. It is either struck with a mallet or used by handb. a similar tool without a handle for working stone or metalvb, -els, -elling or -elled, -els, -eling or -eled1. (Crafts) to carve (wood, stone, metal, etc) or form (an engraving, statue, etc) with or as with a chisel2. slang to cheat or obtain by cheating[C14: via Old French, from Vulgar Latin cīsellus (unattested), from Latin caesus cut, from caedere to cut]

chis•el

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n., v. -eled, -el•ing (esp. Brit.) -elled, -el•ling. n. 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. v.t. 2. to cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel. 3. Slang. a. to cheat or swindle (someone). b. to get by cheating or trickery. v.i. 4. to work with a chisel. 5. Slang. to trick; cheat. [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 (-ī- generalized from prefixed derivatives)] chis′el•er; esp. Brit., chis′el•ler, n. chis′el•like`, adj.

chisel

Past participle: chiselled
Gerund: chiselling

Imperative
chisel
chisel

Present
I chisel
you chisel
he/she/it chisels
we chisel
you chisel
they chisel

Preterite
I chiselled
you chiselled
he/she/it chiselled
we chiselled
you chiselled
they chiselled

Present Continuous
I am chiselling
you are chiselling
he/she/it is chiselling
we are chiselling
you are chiselling
they are chiselling

Present Perfect
I have chiselled
you have chiselled
he/she/it has chiselled
we have chiselled
you have chiselled
they have chiselled

Past Continuous
I was chiselling
you were chiselling
he/she/it was chiselling
we were chiselling
you were chiselling
they were chiselling

Past Perfect
I had chiselled
you had chiselled
he/she/it had chiselled
we had chiselled
you had chiselled
they had chiselled

Future
I will chisel
you will chisel
he/she/it will chisel
we will chisel
you will chisel
they will chisel

Future Perfect
I will have chiselled
you will have chiselled
he/she/it will have chiselled
we will have chiselled
you will have chiselled
they will have chiselled

Future Continuous
I will be chiselling
you will be chiselling
he/she/it will be chiselling
we will be chiselling
you will be chiselling
they will be chiselling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been chiselling
you have been chiselling
he/she/it has been chiselling
we have been chiselling
you have been chiselling
they have been chiselling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been chiselling
you will have been chiselling
he/she/it will have been chiselling
we will have been chiselling
you will have been chiselling
they will have been chiselling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been chiselling
you had been chiselling
he/she/it had been chiselling
we had been chiselling
you had been chiselling
they had been chiselling

Conditional
I would chisel
you would chisel
he/she/it would chisel
we would chisel
you would chisel
they would chisel

Past Conditional
I would have chiselled
you would have chiselled
he/she/it would have chiselled
we would have chiselled
you would have chiselled
they would have chiselled

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	chisel - an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edgeburin - a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engravingcold chisel, set chisel - narrow chisel made of steel; used to cut stone or bricksdrove chisel, drove - a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stoneedge 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 woodworkingripping chisel - a long chisel with a slightly bent cutting end; used for heavy prying or cleaning mortiseswood 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?"cheatjob - profit privately from public office and official businessshark - play the shark; act with trickeryrig, set up - arrange the outcome of by means of deceit; "rig an election"cozen - act with artful deceitcrib - use a crib, as in an examcozen, deceive, delude, lead on - be false to; be dishonest withfudge, 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 offgazump - raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower pricecozen - 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 pricebunco, 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 moneybunk, beat - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"whipsaw - victimize, especially in gambling or negotiationswelch, welsh - cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debtvictimise, 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"

chisel

verbInformal. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery:bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize.Informal: flimflam, take, trim.Slang: diddle, do, gyp, stick, sting.

Translations

凿子凿

chisel

(ˈtʃizl) noun a tool with a cutting edge at the end. 鑿子 凿子 verb – past tense, past participle ˈchiselled , (American) ˈchiseled – to cut or carve (wood etc) with a chisel. 鑿 凿

chisel

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