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All chisel synonyms

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verb chisel

  • cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
  • carve — If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.
  • sculpt — shape, carve
  • hew — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
  • sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
  • shape — Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
  • incise — to cut into; cut marks, figures, etc., upon.
  • roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.

noun chisel

  • blade — The blade of a knife, axe, or saw is the edge, which is used for cutting.
  • knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
  • adze — a heavy hand tool with a steel cutting blade attached at right angles to a wooden handle, used for dressing timber
  • edge — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
  • gouge — a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
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