chiseling

2 definitions found

chiseling - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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

chiseling - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "chiseling":
     artful, burr, calculating, collusive, covinous, crafty,
     cross-hatching, cunning, deceitful, demitint, engravement,
     engraving, etch, etching, false, falsehearted, finagling,
     fraudulent, furtive, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic,
     graving, guileful, half tint, hatching, incision, indirect,
     inscript, inscription, insidious, line, lining, marking, scheming,
     score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sharp, shifty, slash,
     slashing, slippery, sneaky, stipple, stippling, surreptitious,
     tint, tooling, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced,
     type-cutting, underhand, underhanded, wily