chisel

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: cheatrip off

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge

Verb (3)

  1. engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud“Who's chiseling on the side?”Synonyms: 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”Synonyms: cheatrip off
  3. carve with a chisel“chisel the marble”
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Webster's Dictionary (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]

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

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

CHISEL

<language> 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].

(2006-09-19)

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