1. An edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge
   "The sculptor used a chisel to carve details into the stone"

1. Carve with a chisel
   "chisel the marble"
    
2. [informal] Engage in deceitful behaviour; practice trickery or fraud
   "Who's chiseling on the side?";
   - cheat
    
3. [informal] Deprive somebody of something by deceit
   - cheat, rip off [informal]

Derived forms: chiseling, chisels, chiselling, chiselled

Type of: carve, chip at, cozen [literary], deceive, delude, edge tool, lead on, victimise [Brit], victimize

Encyclopedia: Chisel