chisel
chi zuhl
- n an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
- v engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
Who's chiseling on the side? - v deprive somebody of something by deceit
They chiseled me out of my money - v carve with a chisel
chisel the marble
- A chisel of the same size was used to mortise the rungs into the uprights.
- In the celebration that ensued, tens of thousands poured across the boundary and began to dance and chisel away the wall tearing down 28 years of deadly separation and ushering .
- But after several days, when he had heard no sound of hammer and chisel, the king flung open the doors.