Usually means: Tool for carving or cutting material.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. chisel: Merriam-Webster
  2. chisel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chisel: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chisel: Vocabulary.com
  5. Chisel, chisel: Wordnik
  6. chisel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. chisel: Wiktionary
  8. chisel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chisel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chisel: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. chisel: Dictionary.com
  12. chisel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. chisel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Chisel (album), Chisel (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Chisel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. chisel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. chisel: Rhymezone
  18. Chisel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. chisel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Chisel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. chisel: FreeDictionary.org
  22. chisel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. chisel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. chisel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Chisel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  26. chisel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chisel: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHISEL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. chisel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chisel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. chisel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHISEL: Acronym Finder
  2. chisel: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chisel, chisel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. chisel: Urban Dictionary
  3. Chisel: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See chiseled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a chisel.
verb:  (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something).
verb:  (ambitransitive, informal) To cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), resulting in change over time.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something).
noun:  Gravel.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.

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