 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chisel
noun: an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
verb
1: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;
"Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: {cheat}]
2: 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}]
3: carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
[also: {chiselling}, {chiselled}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chisel \Chis"el\, noun [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.
{Cold chisel}. See under {Cold}, adjective
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chisel \Chis"el\, verb (used with an object) [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.
2. To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. [Slang]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "chisel":
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
CHISEL
An extension of {C} for {VLSI} design, implemented as a C
{preprocessor}. It produces {CIF} as output.
["CHISEL - An Extension to the Programming language C for VLSI
Layout", K. Karplus, PHD Thesis, Stanford U, 1982].
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