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Definitions for Chisel

[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.
[4] to cut, shape, or fashion by or as if by carving with a chisel.
[5] to cheat or swindle (someone): He chiseled me out of fifty dollars.
[6] to get (something) by cheating or trickery: He chiseled fifty dollars out of me.
[7] to work with a chisel.
[8] to trick; cheat.
[9] 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 hand a similar tool without a handle for working stone or metal
[10] to carve (wood, stone, metal, etc) or form (an engraving, statue, etc) with or as with a chisel
[11] slang to cheat or obtain by cheating

Words related to Chisel

blade, knife, carve, sculpt, gouge, edge, adze, hew, sculpture, shape, incise, roughcast

Words nearby Chisel

chiru, chirurgeon, chirurgery, chirurgical, chisanbop, chisel, chisel plow, chisel point, chiseled, chiseler, chiselled

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 prefixed derivatives; cf. excide

Other words from Chisel

chis·el·like , adjective

Word origin for Chisel

C14: via Old French, from Vulgar Latin cīsellus (unattested), from Latin caesus cut, from caedere to cut

Synonyms for Chisel

blade, knife, adze, edge, gouge