Chisel

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chisel
       n : an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
       v 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 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].