Chiseling

2 definitions found

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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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