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chiselled
 chiselleft: cold metal chisel with a flat headtop to bottom: cape, round-nose, and diamond-point metal chisel headschis·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.
[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.]
chis′el·er n.
chis·eled or chis·elled C0309500 (chĭz′əld)adj. Made or shaped with or as if with a chisel: a finely chiseled nose.chiselled (ˈtʃɪzəld) or chiseledadj1. (Crafts) carved or formed with or as if with a chisel2. clear-cut: finely chiselled features. TranslationsEncyclopediaSeechisel |