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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? English chisel From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors.
Noun
chisel (plural chisels)
- 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; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
- A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
- A part of some ploughs, next to the ploughshare, that helps cut into the soil and deal with obstructions such as rocks, roots, and stems.
- Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
- Comeronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter
Derived terms
Translations
tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal
- Afrikaans: beitel
- Albanian: thadër (sq) f, daltë (sq) f, plor (sq) m
- Amharic: መሮ (märo)
- Arabic: إِزْمِيل m (ʔizmīl), منقاش (minqāš)
- Armenian: դուր (hy) (dur)
- Belarusian: до́лата n (dólata), зубі́ла n (zubíla) (metal chisel), стаме́ска f (stamjéska) (wood chisel)
- Bulgarian: длето́ (bg) n (dletó)
- Catalan: cisell (ca)
- Chechen: урс (urs)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 鑿 / 凿 (zok6)
- Mandarin: 鑿子 / 凿子 (zh) (záozi)
- Czech: dláto (cs) n, sekáč (cs) m, majzlík (cs) m
- Danish: mejsel (da) c, stemmejern n (wood chisel)
- Dargwa: уршури (uršuri)
- Dutch: beitel (nl) m
- Esperanto: ĉizilo
- Estonian: peitel
- Ewe: pɛ
- Finnish: taltta (fi)
- French: ciseau (fr) m, burin (fr) m
- Friulian: cesel m
- Galician: cicel (gl) m, escoupro m, formón m, trincha f
- Georgian: საჭრისი (sač̣risi), სატეხი (saṭexi)
- German: (for stone, metal, etc.) Meißel (de) m; (for wood) Stemmeisen (de) n, Beitel (de) m, Stechbeitel (de) m
- Greek: σκαρπέλο (el) n (skarpélo)
- Ancient Greek: κολαπτήρ m (kolaptḗr), γλαρίς f (glarís)
- Guianese Creole: sizo
- Gujarati: છીણી (gu) f (chīṇī)
- Hawaiian: pao
- Hebrew: אִזְמֵל (he) m (izmel)
- Hindi: छेनी (hi) f (chenī)
- Hungarian: véső (hu)
- Icelandic: sporjárn n
- Ido: cizelo (io)
- Igbo: mma-mkpa
- Irish: gearrthóir m
- Italian: scalpello (it) m, cesello (it)
- Japanese: 鑿 (ja) (のみ, nomi)
- Javanese: pahat (jv)
- Old Javanese: pahat
- Kazakh: тескіш (teskiš)
- Khmer: ពន្លាក (km) (pʊənliek)
- Korean: 끌 (ko) (kkeul)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئەسکەنە (eskene)
- Kyrgyz: кескич (ky) (keskic)
- Latin: scalprum n, caelum (la) n
- Latvian: kalts
- Lingala: sizó
- Lithuanian: káltas (lt) m
- Macedonian: длето n (dleto)
- Malay: pahat (ms)
- Maltese: furmatur m, skarpell m
- Manx: gilb f
- Māori: whao
- Marathi: पटाशी f (paṭāśī)
- Mongolian: цүүц (mn) (cüüc)
- Nepali: छिनो (chino), राँबो (rā̃bo), रामो (rāmo)
- Northern Sotho: pêtlô
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: meisel m
- Nynorsk: meitel m, meisel m
- Occitan: cisèl (oc) m
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: длато n (dlato)
- Glagolitic: ⰴⰾⰰⱅⱁ n (dlato)
- Old English: heardhēaw
- Persian: اسکنه (fa) (eskene)
- Plautdietsch: Beitel m
- Polish: dłuto (pl) n, przecinak (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: cinzel (pt), escopro (pt) m
- Romanian: daltă (ro) f
- Russian: долото́ (ru) n (dolotó), зуби́ло (ru) n (zubílo) (metal chisel), стаме́ска (ru) f (staméska) (wood chisel)
- Sami:
- Inari Sami: hugimbor
- Scottish Gaelic: geilb f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: длето n, длијето n
- Latin: dleto (sh) n, dlijeto (sh) n
- Sicilian: scarpeḍḍu m
- Slovak: dláto (sk) n, majzlík m, majzel m
- Slovene: dleto (sl) n
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: błośco n, błotko n
- Spanish: formón (es) m (for wood), cincel (es) m (stone, metal, etc.), escoplo (es) m, piqueta (es) f, zapapico (es) m
- Sundanese: tatah
- Swahili: patasi, bobari
- Swedish: mejsel (sv), stämjärn (sv) n
- Tagalog: pait (tl), paningkal
- Tahitian: tohi
- Telugu: శానం (te) (śānaṁ)
- Thai: สิ่ว (th) (sìu)
- Tibetan: འབུག ('bug), གཟོང (gzong)
- Turkish: keski (tr), makas (tr), iskarpela (tr); keçitırnağı (with a triangular cutting edge)
- Ottoman Turkish: كسكی (keski)
- Turkmen: isgene
- Ukrainian: до́лото n (dóloto), зуби́ло n (zubýlo) (metal chisel), стаме́ска (staméska) (wood chisel)
- Uyghur: مېتىن (mëtin)
- Vietnamese: cái đục
- Vilamovian: bǡsuł m
- Walloon: cizea (wa) m
- Welsh: cŷn m (North), gaing f (South)
- Woiwurrung: beum-bean
- Yup'ik: cupilaq
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See also
Verb
chisel (third-person singular simple present chisels, present participle (US) chiseling or (UK) chiselling, simple past and past participle (US) chiseled or (UK) chiselled)
- (intransitive) To use a chisel.
- Synonym: chip (dialectal)
- (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
- Synonym: chip (dialectal)
She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.
- (transitive, dated) To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something).
- (transitive, figurative) To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.
- Synonym: chip away
Laws that protect the environment are being chiseled away.
- (ambitransitive, informal) To beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere. She can always chisel whatever she needs from her father. She's always either chiseling or groveling, it seems.
Usage notes
chiselling and chiselled are more common in the UK while chiseling and chiseled are more common in the US.
Derived terms
Translations
to work something with a chisel Etymology 2
From Middle English chisel, chesil, from Old English ċeosol, ċeosel, ċysel, ċisel, ċisil (“gravel, sand”), from Proto-West Germanic *kesul (“small stone, pebble”). See also chessom.
Alternative forms
Noun
chisel (usually uncountable, plural chisels)
- Gravel.
- (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
Related terms
Further reading
- “chisel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “chisel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “chisel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman chisel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈzɛːl/, /ˈt͡ʃizɛl/, /ˈt͡ʃeːzɛl/
Noun
chisel (plural chisels)
- Any of several cutting tools used by stone masons.
Descendants
References
Old French
Noun
chisel oblique singular, m (oblique plural chiseaus or chiseax or chisiaus or chisiax or chisels, nominative singular chiseaus or chiseax or chisiaus or chisiax or chisels, nominative plural chisel)
- (Old Norman) alternative form of cisel
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