chisel

chisel

Cutting tool with a sharpened edge at the end of a metal blade, used (often by driving with a mallet or hammer) in dressing, shaping, or working a solid material such as wood, stone, or metal. Flint ancestors of the chisel existed by 8000 BC; the ancient Egyptians used copper and later bronze chisels to work both wood and soft stone. Chisels today are made of steel, in various sizes and degrees of hardness, depending on use.

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chisel

a. a hand tool for working wood, consisting of a flat steel blade with a cutting edge attached to a handle of wood, plastic, etc. It is either struck with a mallet or used by hand

b. a similar tool without a handle for working stone or metal

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chisel [′chiz·əl]

(agriculture)

A strong, heavy tool with curved points used for tilling; drawn by a tractor, it stirs the soil at an appreciable depth without turning it.

(design engineering)

A tool for working the surface of various materials, consisting of a metal bar with a sharp edge at one end and often driven by a mallet.

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Chisel [′chiz·əl]

(astronomy)

Caelum

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(language)

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].