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• Trying to open a paint can with a chisel is a misapplication of the tool.From the entry misapplication
• We have to chisel out school funding from the debate.From the entry chisel out
• He's chiseling in on our operation.From the entry chisel in
• “This is doing research way back with a hammer and a chisel.”2023 September 19, Yessenia Funes, quoting Robert D. Bullard, “The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity”, in…. From the entry iPhone
• Hand me my chisel, I got a new commandizzle, for y'all.2012, EpicLLOYD, Nice Peter, Snoop Dogg, “Moses vs Santa Claus”, in Epic Rap Battles of History (Season 2). From the entry -izzle
• She was as willing as the wapping mort whose tunnel you chiselled last week.2012, Beverley Oakley, The Cavalier. From the entry wapping mort
• A thinbladed chisel as illustrated here is ideal for making the cut.2009, Shubhrata R. Mishra, Understanding Plant Reproduction, Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Limited, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry thinbladed
• He's getting too flaquito, nena, all scrawny like Marc Anthony with his manorexia chiseling up his face.2008, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Dirty Girls on Top, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN. From the entry manorexia
• Even a new knife will need to be sharpened, since it has a chisel edge.1988, Georgene Lockwood, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crafts With Kids, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry slickem
• Formerly, I treated old standing tarsalgias with the saw or the chisel, like all other surgeons.1916, Jean-François Calot, translated by A. H. Robinson, Indispensable orthopaedics: a handbook of treatment, 2nd English edition, volume…. From the entry tarsalgia
• He was tall and blond, chiselled and muscular.2022, Rosie Brooks, Flo, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry chiseled
• In the first register is the name of Narmer represented as a fish and a chisel inscribed in the serekh.2005, Abeer El-Shahawy, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk Through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt, page 23. From the entry register
• The gouge is a hollow, round-nose chisel used to rough-cut blanks into cylinders and for making cove cuts.1985 April, Rosario Capotosto, “Become a Woodturning Expert: Part One”, in John A. Linkletter, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 162…. From the entry gouge
• Among them were some very fine braces and drills, with any number of twists, bits, wedges, cold chisels and cutters.1935, John Masefield, Victorious Troy or The Hurrying Angel, London; Toronto, Ont.: William Heinemann Ltd, page 287. From the entry woolleny
• There is a slight degree of chiseling under the eyes, but not so much as to result in a weak or snipey foreface.2009, Richard G. Beauchamp, Bichon Frise, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry snipey
• Using a template or a good eye to guide the paring chisel, slice off the corners of the tenon ovolos at 45 degrees.2008, Roy Underhill, Eleanor Underhill, The Woodwright′s Guide: Working Wood With Wedge and Edge, page 112. From the entry ovolo
• Archie was an artist, finely chiselled, "the type girls go for like catnip." He . . . was expected to marry an American heiress.2004 July 4, Barbara Hall, “Bookwise: Questions”, in Sunday Times, UK, retrieved 05 Jul 2008. From the entry face that would stop a clock
• The percussor used with this chisel may have been of wood, or other relatively soft material, since the battering at the poll is slight.1988, John E. Clark, The Lithic Artifacts of La Libertad, Chiapas, Mexico. From the entry percussor
• These usually large chisels may have the edge basiled on either the inside or the outside of the 90° angle of the blade.1972, Alex W[inkler] Bealer, “Chiseling”, in Old Ways of Working Wood, Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishing Company, Inc., published March 1976…. From the entry basil
• Remove all sharp edges from the babbitt with a chisel or file and try the shaft after removing the paper wrapping for a fit.1919 March, “Babbitting Bearings”, in Care and Repair of Farm Implements. No. 5.—Grain Separators (U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’…. From the entry babbitt
• Visitors barely had time to hang the Cortina on a tree, grab a pre-match kangarooburger, and chisel last week's chewinggum off the sea before the netting started to bulge.1982, Private Eye, Issues 523-549, unknown page. From the entry kangarooburger
• The altars used for magical purposes were of carved wood or, if made of stone, had to be a natural slab, unhewn and untouched by hammer or chisel.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155. From the entry untouched
• Where there is loose mortar or mortar loss highlighted, the area will be prepared using lump hammers, plugging chisels, and scutcheon pick hammers before a standard mortar mix is used.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 27. From the entry lump hammer
• These workers, however, are mostly farmers who devote only their spare time to mining and use simply hammers and chisels and gather only the asbestos which lies near the surface.1913 February, “Asbestos Mines in China”, in Mines and Minerals, volume XXXIII, number 7, Scranton, PA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 398, column 3. From the entry asbestos

Meaning of chisel

1. noun A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
2. noun A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
3. noun A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.

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How do you use chisel in a sentence?

Chisel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.”

What is a short sentence with chisel?

“He's chiseling in on our operation.”

What does chisel mean?

Chisel means a cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.