chisel
Sculptor's edged tool
A chisel is a hand tool with a sharp beveled blade at one end, used for cutting or shaping wood, stone, or metal.
A woodworker drives it with a mallet; a sculptor uses one to carve marble.
To chisel is to cut or shape with this tool.
In slang, to chisel someone is to cheat or swindle them: He chiseled me out of fifty bucks.
Cut to shape
- gougeConcave carving blade
- whittleCarve by shaving layers
- mortiseCarved slot for joining
- tenonProjecting joint piece
dovetail · joinery · cabinetmaking · carpentry · woodcarving · mallet · bevel · pare
Shaped three-dimensional art
- marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- alabasterTranslucent carving stone
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
statue · bas-relief · relief · stonemason · sculptor · bust · quarry · hammer
Severance or reduction
- shapeExternal outline of something
- engraveCarve designs permanently
- etchIncise a surface
- scoreNumerical standing in competition
chip · flute · groove · channel · recess · hollow · chamfer · undercut
carve
Cut to shape
tenon · dovetail · joinery · cabinetmaking · carpentry · woodcarving · mallet · bevel · pare · notch
sculpture
Shaped three-dimensional art
- marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- alabasterTranslucent carving stone
limestone · statue · bas-relief · relief · stonemason · sculptor · bust · quarry · hammer · point
cut
Severance or reduction
score · chip · flute · groove · channel · recess · hollow · chamfer · undercut · rough
cheat
Act dishonestly to win
scam · fleece · bilk · hustle · rip-off · bamboozle · dupe · grift · trick · swindler
anvil
Metal-shaping block
- forgeFurnace for shaping metal
- metalworkingShaping raw ore industrially
- punchStrike with fist
hardened · tempered · steel · cutting · splitting · riveting · bolster · cape · crosscut · blacksmith
- constructionconstruction site, building site, hammer, building, beam
- sculpturestatue, sculpture, sculptor, sculpting, bronze
- woodworkingwoodworking, wood, saw, hammer, drill
- carpentry toolsframing square, carpenter's square, circular saw, claw hammer, tape measure
- cutting toolsaxe, saw, saws, knife, blade
- Pre-electric technologywaterwheel, water wheel, windlass, pulley, plow
chiselglue gun
Heated adhesive applicator tool
welding torch · adhesive · caulking gun · solder · putty knife
chiselsledgehammer
Massive long-handled mallet
wrecking bar · jackhammer · saw · axe · chainsaw
- hammer and chisel
- chiseled jawline
- cold chiselHand tool for cutting metal
- wood chiselHand tool for carving
- chisel tipFlat, angled writing edge
- stone chiselTool for carving rock
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