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cold chisel

cold chisel noun: a narrow chisel, made of hardened, tempered steel, used for cutting stone etc.

cold chisel: a narrow chisel, made of hardened, tempered steel, used for cutting stone etc
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Noun

cold chisel (plural cold chisels)

  1. A narrow chisel, made of hardened, tempered steel, used for cutting stone etc.
    • Meanwhile, Macpherson stood just outside the door, holding a cold chisel which he had taken from a dungaree pocket […] and there Mr. Willison found him.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!

cold chisel meaning in Tamil and Kannada

cold chisel in Tamil

குளிர்வெட்டுளி, வெட்டிரும்பு, தண் வெட்டுளி, குளிர்நிலைவெட்டிரும்பு

cold chisel in Kannada

ತಂಪುಳಿ

Forms of cold chisel

pluralcold chisels

Origin of cold chisel

So called because it was used for cutting cold metal, as distinguished from a blacksmith's chisel for cutting hot iron.

Questions about cold chisel

What does cold chisel mean?
Cold chisel means a narrow chisel, made of hardened, tempered steel, used for cutting stone etc.
What is cold chisel in Tamil?
Cold chisel in Tamil is குளிர்வெட்டுளி, வெட்டிரும்பு, தண் வெட்டுளி. See Cold chisel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cold chisel?
Cold chisel is a noun.
What is the plural of cold chisel?
The plural of cold chisel is cold chisels.

Words near cold chisel in the dictionary

  1. cold cathodes
  2. cold chain
  3. cold chains
  4. cold chills
  5. cold chips
  6. cold chisel
  7. cold chisels
  8. Cold Christmas
  9. cold cock
  10. cold cocked
  11. cold cocking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cold chisel (page history and authors); cold chisel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cold chisel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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