chiseln.¹

/tʃɪzəl/

Forms: Middle English–1500s chisell, chesell, Middle English chysel, chesel(e, cheselle, sceselle, scheselle, Middle English–1500s chesyl(le, 1500s chyssell, chesil(l, chesal, 1500s–1700s chizel(l, 1600s chissell, chessill, chizil, chizzell, ( cheezil, chitzell), 1700s chessel, 1600s–1800s chissel, chizzel, Middle English– chisel.

Etymology: < Old Northern French chisel (= central Old French cisel , in modern French ciseau , = Old Provençal cisel , Catalan cisell , Spanish ci-n-cel , Portuguese ci-n-zel chisel) < late Latin type cīsellum diminutive < *cisum = caesum , < caedĕre to cut: compare Latin cīsorium cutting tool; see scissors n. and int.Italian cesello points to Latin *caesellum, but Italian has also derivatives of the *cis-um type. See Gröber in Archiv f. Lat. Lexicog. u. Gram. I. 546.

a. A cutting tool of iron or steel with the cutting face transverse to the axis, and more or less abruptly bevelled on one or both sides; used for cutting wood, metal, or stone, and worked either by pressure, or by the blows of a mallet or hammer.The ordinary carpenter's chisel has a wooden handle, and a plane face at right angles to the axis, bevelled on one side only; most of the stone-cutters' chisels are bevelled on both sides (or rarely on four sides); some chisels, as the gouge, have the plane of the face curved; others, used in turning, have the edge concave or convex.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun]

chisela1382

wedge-blade1917

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xix. 24 Who ȝiueth to me, that my woordis be writen?..or with a chisell thei be grauen in flint?

c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋344 But there is also costlewe furrynge in hir gownes, so muche pownsonynge of chisel [Harl. chesellis, Selden cheseles] to maken holes, so muche daggynge of sheres.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 76/1 Chysell, instrument, celtis.

1483 Cath. Angl. 64/1 A Cheselle, celtis, celium, scalprum.

a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 807 Hic cunius, a sceselle. Hec seltis, a scheselle.

1539 Bible (Great) Pref. As mallettes..chesylles, axes, and hatchettes be the tooles of theyr occupacyon.

1580 Baret's Aluearie (rev. ed.) C 438 A Chesill. Celtis.

1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. x. 11 The chessyll and gowge..of the charpenter.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1247 The Lacedæmonians.. caused the said Epigram to be cut out with a chizzel.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. x. 465 The siluer which hee had in the armie was euery-where chipt with chisils.

1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) i. 187 Fragments struck off from it with a Chizel and a Hammer.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 85. ⁋10 If our divines and physicians were taught the lathe and the chizzel.

1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxx. 667 Such teeth are, in fact, chisels of most admirable construction.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 277 On almost every stone we found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel.

b. esp. as the sculptor's tool.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > equipment

chisela1616

gravera1637

puncheon1662

veiner1819

gradine1860

macaroni1867

macaroni tool1867

pointing machine1871

punch1875

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 78 What fine Chizzell Could euer yet cut breath?

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 61 The most exquisite turns of the chissel in the hands of a master.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 705 Nor does the chissel occupy alone The pow'rs of sculpture, but the style as much.

1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 320 [The poetry] of Dante is picturesque, indeed, beyond any that ever was written. Its effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel.

1859 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 35 The Chisel, the architect's and sculptor's lithographic pen.

c. With various defining words prefixed, as firmer chisel, mortise chisel, round chisel, etc., cold chisel n. a strong chisel entirely of iron or steel highly tempered, so as to cut cold iron (French ciseau à froid, so called in contradistinction to the ciseau à chaud, or blacksmith's chisel for cutting hot iron, which, as it becomes itself hot in the process, is held by a withe or other temporary handle).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > for cutting metal

cold chisel1697

set1843

hot chisel1848

sate1883

hot set1888

toe-hardy1909

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 5 Some round Cheezil or Lathe perhaps it was.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 435 It was one Man's work to be all day cutting out Bars of Iron into small pieces with a cold Chisel.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 239 The Firmer Chisel is a thin broad chisel, with the sides parallel to a certain length, and then tapering, so as to become much narrower towards the shoulder.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 239 Paring chisel.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. i. 20 Some cold chissels, a screw-driver..cutting chissels.

d. A surgical instrument of like make and use, for cutting bone. So chisel-osteotome n. a chisel for dividing the bones in osteotomy.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > chisel

chisel1662

1662 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (new ed.) 303 Fingers and Toes..are best remov'd with Chizels, or rather cutting Mallets.

1871 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) V. 1076 Sets of bone-cutting forceps and chisels.

1883 T. Holmes & J. W. Hulke Syst. Surg. (ed. 3) III. 825 With Maunder's chisel- ‘osteotome’ there is less chance of disturbing the soft parts.

†2. ? A paint-brush. Obsolete.

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a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 571 Celeps, a chesell to peynte wyth. [Cf. Cath. Angl., A Brusch for paynterys, celeps.]

3. U.S. colloquial phrase full chisel: at full speed, ‘full drive’.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed

full speed1382

with topsailc1400

at spursa1500

on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1525

amain1555

a main pace (also speed)1567

full tilt?a1600

upon full stretch1697

at full tilt1713

at (also on) full speed1749

(at) full split1836

full chisel1837

(at) full pelt1841

full swing1843

ventre à terre1848

full out1886

at full lick1889

hell-for-leather1889

all out1895

eyes out1895

flat out1932

1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 95 The long shanks of a bittern..a drivin away like mad full chizel arter a frog.

1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People ix. 76 Then he'd turn and run up the narrow way, full chisel.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

a. Resembling a chisel, chisel-shaped.

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1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados xii. Prol. 58 The siluer scalit fyschis..Wyth fynnys schinand..And chesal [1874 chyssell] talis.

b. spec. Designating a type of shoe with a squared toe.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with specific type of toe

picked1615

square-toe1706

square-toed1785

stub-toed1930

open-toe1938

peep-toe1939

peep-toed1953

chisel1961

1961 New Statesman 26 May 830/1 Where I live, the latest is an Italian-styled navy blue double-breasted suit, and chisel shoes.

1962 Guardian 31 July 3/2 He stands out..like a continental chiseltoe in a row of sensible Northampton brogues.

1969 New Yorker 11 Oct. 9 (advt.) The shoe that fits the mood is the chisel toe slip-on.

C2. General attributive.

chisel-cut adj.

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1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xxx. 358 Able to read dates in chisel-cut mouldings.

chisel-edge n.

chisel-like adj.

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1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 83 When any unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them off with their chisel-like teeth.

chisel-mark n.

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1863 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (1878) 612 The very chisel-marks of the men who built the castle.

chisel-pointed adj.

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1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 9 The Kentish turnwrest-plough with a chisel-pointed share.

chisel-shaped adj.

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1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 8 [Incisors] with sharp chisel-shaped edges.

C3.

chisel-bone n. the one half of the lower jaw of the pike (fish).

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox lucius (true pike) > parts of

chisel-bonea1682

spear1690

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) xiii. 214 Batrachomyomachia..neatly described upon the Chizel Bone of a large Pike's Jaw.

chisel-draft n. a flat line, of the breadth of the chisel, cut on the edges of a stone which is to be dressed, to mark the level of the plane of the intended surface.

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1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 261 (note) Driving a fair chissel draft across the joints.

chisel end n.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > end or head like chisel

chisel end1876

chisel head1908

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 194 The chisel end of the punner bar.

chisel head n. an end or head shaped or sharpened like a chisel.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > end or head like chisel

chisel end1876

chisel head1908

1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 241 The ‘chisel’ head or sharp portion [of the frost nail] to remain above the [horse-]shoe.

chisel-mouth n. U.S. = quinnat n.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook)

red fish1763

spring salmon1776

gorbuscha1784

keta1824

quinnat1829

Chinook salmon1851

coho1869

king salmon1871

silver trout1873

kokanee1875

salmon1884

sockeye1888

chisel-mouth1889

pink salmon1899

spring1900

tyee1902

pink1905

blackmouth1906

chum1908

greenback cut-throat1989

1889 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 4 Nov. 5/1 He..landed after a most exciting fight, a chinook or chisel-mouth of large size.

1896 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) i. 207 Acrocheilus, Agassiz. (Chisel-mouths.)

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Chisel-mouth, a cyprinoid fish, Acrocheilus alutaceus, found in the lower Columbia river and its tributaries, as far up as Shoshone and Spokane Falls. Also called chiselmouth jack.

chisel-tooth n. a name given to the incisor teeth of rodent animals.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > parts of

chisel-tooth1849

1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 906/1 The long and large incisors of the Rodents have been termed..Chisel-teeth.

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chiselchisseln.²

/ˈtʃɪz(ə)l/

/ˈtʃɪs(ə)l/

Forms: 1600s chisel(l, cheasil, chizell, chesill, 1700s chizzil, 1600s, 1800s chissell, chizzel(l.

Etymology: The same word as chesil n.¹, gravel, applied to bran from its coarse gritty character.

Bran (called in some localities ‘sharps’); sometimes also applied to the coarsest flour in which some of the bran is left, ‘whole meal’.

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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > bran > [noun]

sivedsc725

boltingsa1300

branc1325

paly1407

hullc1450

cribble bread1552

cheesyl1577

clat1595

seeds1595

chisel1607

hulkage1869

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 121 It eateth Grasse, Oates, Cheasiill [sic], Hay, and Bread.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 252 Mix Goats blood with chisel steept in broth.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 8 Common hors-bread..made of ordinarie chissel, or bran.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 110 Chizell..which hereabouts is called treate, in the South-Country, branne.

1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 61 Chizzell, bran.

1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 470 Coarse bread made of chesill.

1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 321 Chizzil, bran (the common term).

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 28 Chizzel, bran, wheat skins from refining flour.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Chissells, the coarsest kind of flour.

1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. When you get your corn grun, first comes the bran, then the chisel, then the fine flour.

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chiselv.¹

/ˈtʃɪzəl/

Forms: also 1800s– chizzle.

Etymology: < chisel n.¹ which see for forms. Compare French ciseler . (Sense 3 is doubtfully connected.)

a. transitive. To cut, grave, pare, shape, etc. with a chisel. Often with out.

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the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] > by or as by cutting

hewc900

behewc1314

tailc1400

chisel1517

tailye1581

cut1600

nick1605

pare1708

whittle1848

nibble1987

society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > shaping tool

behewc1314

turn?c1335

chisel1517

hew1617

axe1700

rout1818

block1831

swage1831

jigsaw1873

router1890

hot-press1947

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (transitive)]

behewc1314

entailc1394

chisel1517

to cut out1548

insculp1578

cut1600

sculpturea1684

sculp1784

sculpt1864

under-carve1904

1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) iv. 20 A grece there was ychesyled all of stone Out of the rocke.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 297 The Stones chesseled and made smooth.

1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Eiij With this and a Hammer to strike with, we Chissel the Ore out of Loughs in Pipe Works.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 129 People were at work chiselling several statues.

b. absol. To work with a chisel.

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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (intransitive)] > other tools or equipment

filec1230

to blow the bellowsc1440

pump1508

vice1612

plane1678

shovel1685

turn1796

brake1862

pestle1866

chisel1873

roll1881

slice1893

leverage1937

monkeywrench1993

1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl II. 142 In these days no man will be content to chisel humbly.

2. transferred and figurative.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > give (thought) clear expression [verb (transitive)]

upknit1596

chisel1793

to spell out1940

1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xxix. 135 These all modify, repair, and chissel forth the body.

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 119 It is as if there were some fine art to chisel thought.

3. colloquial or slang. Also chizzle. To cheat, defraud. to chisel out of: to cheat of.[History obscure: written evidence wanting. Its use at Winchester Coll. in 1821 is vouched for by the Warden of New College (the Rev. Dr. Sewell), and in 1839 by Rev. C. B. Mount. Mr. H. H. Gibbs says, ‘quite a current word in England in 1835’.]

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle

defraud1362

deceivec1380

plucka1500

lurch1530

defeata1538

souse1545

lick1548

wipe1549

fraud1563

use1564

cozen1573

nick1576

verse1591

rooka1595

trim1600

skelder1602

firk1604

dry-shave1620

fiddle1630

nose1637

foista1640

doa1642

sharka1650

chouse1654

burn1655

bilk1672

under-enter1692

sharp1699

stick1699

finger1709

roguea1714

fling1749

swindle1773

jink1777

queer1778

to do over1781

jump1789

mace1790

chisel1808

slang1812

bucket1819

to clean out1819

give it1819

to put in the hole1819

ramp1819

sting1819

victimize1839

financier1840

gum1840

snakea1861

to take down1865

verneuk1871

bunco1875

rush1875

gyp1879

salt1882

daddle1883

work1884

to have (one) on toast1886

slip1890

to do (a person) in the eye1891

sugar1892

flay1893

to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895

con1896

pad1897

screw1900

short-change1903

to do in1906

window dress1913

ream1914

twist1914

clean1915

rim1918

tweedle1925

hype1926

clip1927

take1927

gazump1928

yentz1930

promote1931

to take (someone) to the cleaners1932

to carve up1933

chizz1948

stiff1950

scam1963

to rip off1969

to stitch up1970

skunk1971

to steal (someone) blind1974

diddle-

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something

beguile1394

wrongc1484

delude1493

licka1500

to wipe a person's nose1577

uncle1585

cheat1597

cozen1602

to bob of1605

to bob out of1605

gull1612

foola1616

to set in the nick1616

to worm (a person) out of1617

shuffle1627

to baffle out of1652

chouse1654

trepan1662

bubble1668

trick1698

to bamboozle out of1705

fling1749

jockey1772

swindle1780

twiddle1825

to diddle out of1829

nig1829

to chisel out of1848

to beat out1851

nobble1852

duff1863

flim-flam1890

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Chizzel, to cheat, to act deceitfully.

1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major xxiv. 181 You can chizzle them out of their property.

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To chisel, to cheat, to swindle (comp. To gouge), a Western word..‘have chiselled the people of California out of a million of dollars’.

1848 Illustr. London News 1 Apr. 220/3 We aint going to be chizzled out of it.

1856 W. H. Smyth Descr. Catal. Roman Family Coins 245 He muttered something about being ‘chiselled’ in the transaction.

1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. iii. 57 I never can stand quiet and see people trying to chisel me.

4. intransitive. To ‘butt in’; to intrude. colloquial.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > in unwelcome or unwarranted manner

pressc1390

poach?1536

shovel1540

encroach1555

intrude1573

obtrude1579

wedge1631

interlope1775

to butt in1899

to wade in1905

horn1912

muscle1928

chisel1936

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] > intrude or interfere

chop1535

shovel1540

to put (also stick, shove, etc.) one's oar in1542

intrude1573

to put in one's spoke1580

to put forward1816

neb1889

to butt in1899

to butt into ——1900

horn1912

muscle1928

chisel1936

1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger lii. 491 It is considered smart to chisel-in on a married woman now.

1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath 260 Goin' aroun' stirrin' up trouble. Gettin' folks mad. Chiselin' in.

1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) iv. 93 There is something..annoying..in finding neighbours from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York.

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chiselchizzelv.²

Brit.

/ˈtʃɪz(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈtʃɪz(ə)l/, Scottish English

/ˈtʃɪz(ə)l/

Etymology: < chessel n.

Scottish.

To press in a chessel or cheese-vat.

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1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 379 (Jam.) Some ewe milk cheese..pressed and chiselled wi' my ain hand.

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> see also

also refers to : chesilchiseln.¹

n.¹a1382

n.²1607

v.¹1517

v.²1820

单词	chisel
释义	chiseln.¹ /tʃɪzəl/ Forms: Middle English–1500s chisell, chesell, Middle English chysel, chesel(e, cheselle, sceselle, scheselle, Middle English–1500s chesyl(le, 1500s chyssell, chesil(l, chesal, 1500s–1700s chizel(l, 1600s chissell, chessill, chizil, chizzell, ( cheezil, chitzell), 1700s chessel, 1600s–1800s chissel, chizzel, Middle English– chisel. Etymology: < Old Northern French chisel (= central Old French cisel , in modern French ciseau , = Old Provençal cisel , Catalan cisell , Spanish ci-n-cel , Portuguese ci-n-zel chisel) < late Latin type cīsellum diminutive < cisum = caesum* , < caedĕre to cut: compare Latin cīsorium cutting tool; see scissors n. and int.Italian cesello points to Latin caesellum, but Italian has also derivatives of the cis-um type. See Gröber in Archiv f. Lat. Lexicog. u. Gram. I. 546. 1. a. A cutting tool of iron or steel with the cutting face transverse to the axis, and more or less abruptly bevelled on one or both sides; used for cutting wood, metal, or stone, and worked either by pressure, or by the blows of a mallet or hammer.The ordinary carpenter's chisel has a wooden handle, and a plane face at right angles to the axis, bevelled on one side only; most of the stone-cutters' chisels are bevelled on both sides (or rarely on four sides); some chisels, as the gouge, have the plane of the face curved; others, used in turning, have the edge concave or convex. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] chisela1382 wedge-blade1917 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xix. 24 Who ȝiueth to me, that my woordis be writen?..or with a chisell thei be grauen in flint? c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋344 But there is also costlewe furrynge in hir gownes, so muche pownsonynge of chisel [Harl. chesellis, Selden cheseles] to maken holes, so muche daggynge of sheres. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 76/1 Chysell, instrument, celtis. 1483 Cath. Angl. 64/1 A Cheselle, celtis, celium, scalprum. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 807 Hic cunius, a sceselle. Hec seltis, a scheselle. 1539 Bible (Great) Pref. As mallettes..chesylles, axes, and hatchettes be the tooles of theyr occupacyon. 1580 Baret's Aluearie (rev. ed.) C 438 A Chesill. Celtis. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. x. 11 The chessyll and gowge..of the charpenter. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1247 The Lacedæmonians.. caused the said Epigram to be cut out with a chizzel. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. x. 465 The siluer which hee had in the armie was euery-where chipt with chisils. 1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) i. 187 Fragments struck off from it with a Chizel and a Hammer. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 85. ⁋10 If our divines and physicians were taught the lathe and the chizzel. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxx. 667 Such teeth are, in fact, chisels of most admirable construction. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 277 On almost every stone we found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel. b. esp. as the sculptor's tool. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > equipment chisela1616 gravera1637 puncheon1662 veiner1819 gradine1860 macaroni1867 macaroni tool1867 pointing machine1871 punch1875 a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 78 What fine Chizzell Could euer yet cut breath? View more context for this quotation 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty x. 61 The most exquisite turns of the chissel in the hands of a master. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 705 Nor does the chissel occupy alone The pow'rs of sculpture, but the style as much. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 320 [The poetry] of Dante is picturesque, indeed, beyond any that ever was written. Its effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel. 1859 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 35 The Chisel, the architect's and sculptor's lithographic pen. c. With various defining words prefixed, as firmer chisel, mortise chisel, round chisel, etc., cold chisel n. a strong chisel entirely of iron or steel highly tempered, so as to cut cold iron (French ciseau à froid, so called in contradistinction to the ciseau à chaud, or blacksmith's chisel for cutting hot iron, which, as it becomes itself hot in the process, is held by a withe or other temporary handle). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > for cutting metal cold chisel1697 set1843 hot chisel1848 sate1883 hot set1888 toe-hardy1909 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 5 Some round Cheezil or Lathe perhaps it was. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xv. 435 It was one Man's work to be all day cutting out Bars of Iron into small pieces with a cold Chisel. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 239 The Firmer Chisel is a thin broad chisel, with the sides parallel to a certain length, and then tapering, so as to become much narrower towards the shoulder. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 239 Paring chisel. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. i. 20 Some cold chissels, a screw-driver..cutting chissels. d. A surgical instrument of like make and use, for cutting bone. So chisel-osteotome n. a chisel for dividing the bones in osteotomy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > chisel chisel1662 1662 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (new ed.) 303 Fingers and Toes..are best remov'd with Chizels, or rather cutting Mallets. 1871 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) V. 1076 Sets of bone-cutting forceps and chisels. 1883 T. Holmes & J. W. Hulke Syst. Surg. (ed. 3) III. 825 With Maunder's chisel- ‘osteotome’ there is less chance of disturbing the soft parts. †2. ? A paint-brush. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 571 Celeps, a chesell to peynte wyth. [Cf. Cath. Angl., A Brusch for paynterys, celeps.] 3. U.S. colloquial phrase full chisel: at full speed, ‘full drive’. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed full speed1382 with topsailc1400 at spursa1500 on (also upon) the (spurs or) spur1525 amain1555 a main pace (also speed)1567 full tilt?a1600 upon full stretch1697 at full tilt1713 at (also on) full speed1749 (at) full split1836 full chisel1837 (at) full pelt1841 full swing1843 ventre à terre1848 full out1886 at full lick1889 hell-for-leather1889 all out1895 eyes out1895 flat out1932 1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 95 The long shanks of a bittern..a drivin away like mad full chizel arter a frog. 1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People ix. 76 Then he'd turn and run up the narrow way, full chisel. Compounds C1. attributive. a. Resembling a chisel, chisel-shaped. ΚΠ 1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados xii. Prol. 58 The siluer scalit fyschis..Wyth fynnys schinand..And chesal [1874 chyssell] talis. b. spec. Designating a type of shoe with a squared toe. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with specific type of toe picked1615 square-toe1706 square-toed1785 stub-toed1930 open-toe1938 peep-toe1939 peep-toed1953 chisel1961 1961 New Statesman 26 May 830/1 Where I live, the latest is an Italian-styled navy blue double-breasted suit, and chisel shoes. 1962 Guardian 31 July 3/2 He stands out..like a continental chiseltoe in a row of sensible Northampton brogues. 1969 New Yorker 11 Oct. 9 (advt.) The shoe that fits the mood is the chisel toe slip-on. C2. General attributive. chisel-cut adj. ΚΠ 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xxx. 358 Able to read dates in chisel-cut mouldings. chisel-edge n. chisel-like adj. ΚΠ 1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 83 When any unnecessary branches project inward, they cut them off with their chisel-like teeth. chisel-mark n. ΚΠ 1863 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (1878) 612 The very chisel-marks of the men who built the castle. chisel-pointed adj. ΚΠ 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 9 The Kentish turnwrest-plough with a chisel-pointed share. chisel-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 8 [Incisors] with sharp chisel-shaped edges. C3. chisel-bone n. the one half of the lower jaw of the pike (fish). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Esocidae (pikes) > [noun] > esox lucius (true pike) > parts of chisel-bonea1682 spear1690 a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) xiii. 214 Batrachomyomachia..neatly described upon the Chizel Bone of a large Pike's Jaw. chisel-draft n. a flat line, of the breadth of the chisel, cut on the edges of a stone which is to be dressed, to mark the level of the plane of the intended surface. ΚΠ 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 261 (note) Driving a fair chissel draft across the joints. chisel end n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > end or head like chisel chisel end1876 chisel head1908 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 194 The chisel end of the punner bar. chisel head n. an end or head shaped or sharpened like a chisel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > end or head like chisel chisel end1876 chisel head1908 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 241 The ‘chisel’ head or sharp portion [of the frost nail] to remain above the [horse-]shoe. chisel-mouth n. U.S. = quinnat n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook) red fish1763 spring salmon1776 gorbuscha1784 keta1824 quinnat1829 Chinook salmon1851 coho1869 king salmon1871 silver trout1873 kokanee1875 salmon1884 sockeye1888 chisel-mouth1889 pink salmon1899 spring1900 tyee1902 pink1905 blackmouth1906 chum1908 greenback cut-throat1989 1889 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 4 Nov. 5/1 He..landed after a most exciting fight, a chinook or chisel-mouth of large size. 1896 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) i. 207 Acrocheilus, Agassiz. (Chisel-mouths.) 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Chisel-mouth, a cyprinoid fish, Acrocheilus alutaceus, found in the lower Columbia river and its tributaries, as far up as Shoshone and Spokane Falls. Also called chiselmouth jack. chisel-tooth n. a name given to the incisor teeth of rodent animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > parts of chisel-tooth1849 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 906/1 The long and large incisors of the Rodents have been termed..Chisel-teeth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). chiselchisseln.² /ˈtʃɪz(ə)l//ˈtʃɪs(ə)l/ Forms: 1600s chisel(l, cheasil, chizell, chesill, 1700s chizzil, 1600s, 1800s chissell, chizzel(l. Etymology: The same word as chesil n.¹, gravel, applied to bran from its coarse gritty character. Bran (called in some localities ‘sharps’); sometimes also applied to the coarsest flour in which some of the bran is left, ‘whole meal’. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > bran > [noun] sivedsc725 boltingsa1300 branc1325 paly1407 hullc1450 cribble bread1552 cheesyl1577 clat1595 seeds1595 chisel1607 hulkage1869 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 121 It eateth Grasse, Oates, Cheasiill [sic], Hay, and Bread. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 252 Mix Goats blood with chisel steept in broth. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 8 Common hors-bread..made of ordinarie chissel, or bran. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 110 Chizell..which hereabouts is called treate, in the South-Country, branne. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 61 Chizzell, bran. 1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 470 Coarse bread made of chesill. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 321 Chizzil, bran (the common term). 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 28 Chizzel, bran, wheat skins from refining flour. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Chissells, the coarsest kind of flour. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. When you get your corn grun, first comes the bran, then the chisel, then the fine flour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). chiselv.¹ /ˈtʃɪzəl/ Forms: also 1800s– chizzle. Etymology: < chisel n.¹ which see for forms. Compare French ciseler . (Sense 3 is doubtfully connected.) 1. a. transitive. To cut, grave, pare, shape, etc. with a chisel. Often with out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] > by or as by cutting hewc900 behewc1314 tailc1400 chisel1517 tailye1581 cut1600 nick1605 pare1708 whittle1848 nibble1987 society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > shaping tool behewc1314 turn?c1335 chisel1517 hew1617 axe1700 rout1818 block1831 swage1831 jigsaw1873 router1890 hot-press1947 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (transitive)] behewc1314 entailc1394 chisel1517 to cut out1548 insculp1578 cut1600 sculpturea1684 sculp1784 sculpt1864 under-carve1904 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) iv. 20 A grece there was ychesyled all of stone Out of the rocke. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 297 The Stones chesseled and made smooth. 1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Eiij With this and a Hammer to strike with, we Chissel the Ore out of Loughs in Pipe Works. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 129 People were at work chiselling several statues. b. absol. To work with a chisel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (intransitive)] > other tools or equipment filec1230 to blow the bellowsc1440 pump1508 vice1612 plane1678 shovel1685 turn1796 brake1862 pestle1866 chisel1873 roll1881 slice1893 leverage1937 monkeywrench1993 1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl II. 142 In these days no man will be content to chisel humbly. 2. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > give (thought) clear expression [verb (transitive)] upknit1596 chisel1793 to spell out1940 1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xxix. 135 These all modify, repair, and chissel forth the body. 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 119 It is as if there were some fine art to chisel thought. 3. colloquial or slang. Also chizzle. To cheat, defraud. to chisel out of: to cheat of.[History obscure: written evidence wanting. Its use at Winchester Coll. in 1821 is vouched for by the Warden of New College (the Rev. Dr. Sewell), and in 1839 by Rev. C. B. Mount. Mr. H. H. Gibbs says, ‘quite a current word in England in 1835’.] ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle defraud1362 deceivec1380 plucka1500 lurch1530 defeata1538 souse1545 lick1548 wipe1549 fraud1563 use1564 cozen1573 nick1576 verse1591 rooka1595 trim1600 skelder1602 firk1604 dry-shave1620 fiddle1630 nose1637 foista1640 doa1642 sharka1650 chouse1654 burn1655 bilk1672 under-enter1692 sharp1699 stick1699 finger1709 roguea1714 fling1749 swindle1773 jink1777 queer1778 to do over1781 jump1789 mace1790 chisel1808 slang1812 bucket1819 to clean out1819 give it1819 to put in the hole1819 ramp1819 sting1819 victimize1839 financier1840 gum1840 snakea1861 to take down1865 verneuk1871 bunco1875 rush1875 gyp1879 salt1882 daddle1883 work1884 to have (one) on toast1886 slip1890 to do (a person) in the eye1891 sugar1892 flay1893 to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895 con1896 pad1897 screw1900 short-change1903 to do in1906 window dress1913 ream1914 twist1914 clean1915 rim1918 tweedle1925 hype1926 clip1927 take1927 gazump1928 yentz1930 promote1931 to take (someone) to the cleaners1932 to carve up1933 chizz1948 stiff1950 scam1963 to rip off1969 to stitch up1970 skunk1971 to steal (someone) blind1974 diddle- the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something beguile1394 wrongc1484 delude1493 licka1500 to wipe a person's nose1577 uncle1585 cheat1597 cozen1602 to bob of1605 to bob out of1605 gull1612 foola1616 to set in the nick1616 to worm (a person) out of1617 shuffle1627 to baffle out of1652 chouse1654 trepan1662 bubble1668 trick1698 to bamboozle out of1705 fling1749 jockey1772 swindle1780 twiddle1825 to diddle out of1829 nig1829 to chisel out of1848 to beat out1851 nobble1852 duff1863 flim-flam1890 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Chizzel, to cheat, to act deceitfully. 1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major xxiv. 181 You can chizzle them out of their property. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To chisel, to cheat, to swindle (comp. To gouge), a Western word..‘have chiselled the people of California out of a million of dollars’. 1848 Illustr. London News 1 Apr. 220/3 We aint going to be chizzled out of it. 1856 W. H. Smyth Descr. Catal. Roman Family Coins 245 He muttered something about being ‘chiselled’ in the transaction. 1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. iii. 57 I never can stand quiet and see people trying to chisel me. 4. intransitive. To ‘butt in’; to intrude. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > in unwelcome or unwarranted manner pressc1390 poach?1536 shovel1540 encroach1555 intrude1573 obtrude1579 wedge1631 interlope1775 to butt in1899 to wade in1905 horn1912 muscle1928 chisel1936 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] > intrude or interfere chop1535 shovel1540 to put (also stick, shove, etc.) one's oar in1542 intrude1573 to put in one's spoke1580 to put forward1816 neb1889 to butt in1899 to butt into ——1900 horn1912 muscle1928 chisel1936 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger lii. 491 It is considered smart to chisel-in on a married woman now. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath 260 Goin' aroun' stirrin' up trouble. Gettin' folks mad. Chiselin' in. 1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) iv. 93 There is something..annoying..in finding neighbours from back home chiselling in on your own exclusive New York. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). chiselchizzelv.² Brit. /ˈtʃɪz(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪz(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈtʃɪz(ə)l/ Etymology: < chessel n. Scottish. To press in a chessel or cheese-vat. ΚΠ 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 379 (Jam.) Some ewe milk cheese..pressed and chiselled wi' my ain hand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : chesilchiseln.¹ < n.¹a1382n.²1607v.¹1517v.²1820 see also
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