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Definitions for Chiseling
[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 Chiseling
chiselblade, knife, carve, sculpt, gouge, edge, adze, hew, sculpture, shape, incise, roughcast
Words nearby Chiseling
chiselchiru, chirurgeon, chirurgery, chirurgical, chisanbop, chisel, chisel plow, chisel point, chiseled, chiseler, chiselled
Origin of Chiseling
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 Chiseling
chis·el·like , adjective
Word origin for Chiseling
C14: via Old French, from Vulgar Latin cīsellus (unattested), from Latin caesus cut, from caedere to cut