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"Who's chiseling on the side?"verbengage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
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"They chiseled me out of my money"verbdeprive somebody of something by deceit
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nounan edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edgetype of:
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"chisel the marble"verbcarve with a chisel
Definition that contains chisel
- drove a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
- pecker bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
- chisel carve with a chisel
- woodpecker bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
- peckerwood bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
- hewn cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel
- burin a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving
- wood chisel a chisel for working wood; it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand
- carpenter's mallet a short-handled mallet with a wooden head used to strike a chisel or wedge
- cold chisel narrow chisel made of steel; used to cut stone or bricks