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Chisel : (noun)
1: an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
(verb)
1: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;
"Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: cheat]
2: deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat
me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were
cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled
me out of my money" [syn: cheat, rip off]
3: carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Chisel : \Chis"el\, n. [OF. chisel, F. ciseau, fr. LL. cisellus,
prob. for caesellus, fr. L. caesus, p. p. of caedere to cut.
Cf. Scissors.]
A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used
in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal,
etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Chisel : \Chis"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chiseled, or Chiselled
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chiseling, or Chiselling.] [Cf. F.
ciseler.]
1. To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to
chisel a block of marble into a statue.
2. To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. [Slang]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Chisel :
An extension of C for VLSI design, implemented as a C
preprocessor. It produces CIF as output.
["CHISEL - An Extension to the Programming language C for VLSI
Layout", K. Karplus, PHD Thesis, Stanford U, 1982].
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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