Chisel
['tʃɪz(ə)l] or ['tʃɪzl]
Definition
(noun.) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge.
(verb.) carve with a chisel; 'chisel the marble'.
Checker: Lowell--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
(v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
Checker: Maryann
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Cut, carve, sculpture.
Inputed by Leslie
Definition
n. an iron or steel tool to cut or hollow out wood stone &c.: esp. the tool of the sculptor.—v.t. to cut carve &c. with a chisel: (slang) to cheat:—pr.p. chis′elling; pa.p. chis′elled.—adj. Chis′elled cut with a chisel; (fig.) having sharp outlines as cut by a chisel.—n. Chis′elling.—adj. Chis′el-shaped.—n. Chis′el-tooth the scalpriform perennial incisor of a rodent.
n. See Chesil.
Editor: Martin
Examples
- A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The resemblance is correct; the head is a copy from the excellent bust produced by the chisel of Houdon. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Have you the chisel and the bags? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was evident that a chisel or strong knife had been thrust in, and the lock forced back with it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The blanks, as the steel before it has teeth is called, are laid on the anvil and struck with the chisel, which rests obliquely on the blank, each blow raising a ridge or tooth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Wrapped around the cylinder was a sheet of tinfoil, with which engaged a small chisel-like recording needle, connected adhesively with the centre of an iron diaphragm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Table knives, plane irons and chisels of a very superior kind are made of shear steel, while common steel is wrought up into ordinary cutlery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another difficulty was the lack of proper tools; but he worked at these until his box was supplied with a stock of knives, saws, chisels, and gravers of many different patterns. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I charge you, when you next look on your father's monument, to respect the name chiselled there. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One man in times of old, it is said, imparted vitality to the statue he had chiselled; others may have the contrary gift of turning life to stone. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If those illustrious artists had in truth chiselled these forms, how many passing generations had their giant proportions outlived! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is like his face--just like the chiselling of his features: do you know his autograph? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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