'Chisel' definitions:
Definition of 'chisel'
(from WordNet)
noun
An edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
verb
Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: cheat, chisel]
verb
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" [syn: cheat, rip off, chisel]
verb
Carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
Definition of 'Chisel'
From: GCIDE
- Chisel \Chis"el\, n. [OF. chisel, F. ciseau, fr. LL. cisellus, prob. for caesellus, fr. L. caesus, p. p. of caedere to cut. Cf. Scissors.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Cold chisel. See under Cold, a. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Chisel'
From: GCIDE
- Chisel \Chis"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chiseled, or Chiselled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chiseling, or Chiselling.] [Cf. F. ciseler.]
- 1. To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. [Slang] [1913 Webster] chiseler
Synonyms of 'chisel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- assemble,
- autolithograph,
- bamboozle,
- be a printmaker,
- beat,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- block out,
- bunco,
- burn,
- canal,
- canalize,
- carve,
- cast,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- character,
- chase,
- cheat,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- convert,
- corrugate,
- cozen,
- crack,
- crease,
- create,
- crib,
- cribble,
- crimp,
- crosshatch,
- cultivate,
- cut,
- dado,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- dike,
- ditch,
- do,
- do in,
- do out of,
- dupe,
- efform,
- enchase,
- engrave,
- euchre,
- extract,
- fashion,
- figure,
- finagle,
- fix,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- flute,
- fob,
- fool,
- forge,
- form,
- formalize,
- found,
- frame,
- fudge,
- furrow,
- gash,
- grave,
- groove,
- grow,
- gull,
- gully,
- gyp,
- harvest,
- hatch,
- have,
- hew,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- incise,
- inscribe,
- insculpture,
- knead,
- knock out,
- lay out,
- lick into shape,
- line,
- lithograph,
- machine,
- make prints,
- mallet,
- mark,
- mill,
- mine,
- mint,
- model,
- modeling clay,
- mold,
- mulct,
- overreach,
- pack the deal,
- pare,
- pigeon,
- pleat,
- plow,
- point,
- practice fraud upon,
- print,
- process,
- pump,
- rabbet,
- raise,
- rear,
- refine,
- rifle,
- rook,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- rut,
- scam,
- score,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- screw,
- sculp,
- sculpt,
- sculpture,
- sell gold bricks,
- set,
- shape,
- shave,
- shortchange,
- slit,
- smelt,
- solder,
- soldering iron,
- spatula,
- stack the cards,
- stamp,
- stick,
- sting,
- stipple,
- streak,
- striate,
- swindle,
- tailor,
- take a dive,
- thermoform,
- thimblerig,
- throw a fight,
- tool,
- trench,
- trick,
- trough,
- victimize,
- weld,
- work,
- wrinkle