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Another word for chisel

Verb

  1. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery

    2. See also:

    honest

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Another word for chisel

Noun
    2. See also:

    tool

    knife

Another word for chisel

Verb

  1. To work with a chisel

    2. See also:

    form

    cut

    carve

  2. *To get by imposition

    3. See also:

    deceive

    cheat

    beg

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Sentence Examples

  • The tools employed are chisel, gouge and mallet.

  • What would inspire someone to chisel their name into a rock so far from civilization?

  • His first business is to chisel the surface in lines forming the basic pattern of the design.

  • The cutting artist lays the piece of unfinished velvet on his bench, and proceeds to carve into the pattern with his chisel, just as though he were shading the lines of the design with a steel pencil.

  • The Japanes kinzoku-shi (metal sculptor) uses thirty-six principal classes 0, chisel, each with its distinctive name, and as most of thes classes comprise from five to ten sub-varieties, his cuttinl and graving tools aggregate about two hundred and fifty.

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