Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: chisel
IPA transcription: [tʃ'ɪzəl]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.