Synonyms:
chisel
Meaning: an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
Usage examples
Gun-flints are made with a hammer, and a chisel of steel that is not hardened.
Or beech--a most carvable wood. Especially when one's sharpest chisel was a flint.
Seeing how a certain bird carved holes in the trunks of trees, he learned how to make and use the chisel.
The stone is chipped by the hammer alone into pieces of the required thickness, which are fashioned by being laid upon the fixed chisel, and hammered against it.
A fragment of flint or obsidian may be made fast to a handle, to be used as a carpenter cuts paper With a chisel; namely, by holding it dagger-fashion, and drawing it over the skin or flesh which he wishes to cut.
They were sounds occasioned by the artist in prying open the oblong box, by means of a chisel and mallet--the latter being apparently muffled, or deadened, by some soft woollen or cotton substance in which its head was enveloped.