All chisel synonyms
chis·el
C c 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.