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n.
A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.
n.
A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.
a.
Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
n.
A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
n.
One who, or that which, jags; specifically: (a) jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc. (b) A toothed chisel. See Jag, v. t.
n.
A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove.
a.
Shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents.
v.
A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
v. t.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
n.
A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.
v. t.
To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
n.
An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.
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A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
n.
A wide paring chisel.
a.
A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
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