0 a tool with a long metal blade that has a sharp edge for cutting wood, stone, etc. --
1 to use a chisel: --
2 a tool with a long, metal blade that has a sharp edge for cutting esp. wood or stone --
3 to cut with a chisel --
Each year another bit has been chiselled off.
One morning they sent half a dozen men with a lorry, some steps, some hammers and chisels and a few enamelled plates.
If other countries are cheating or chiselling, then we must have it out with them.
I am still working in the factory where chisels are used.
Is it not unfortunate that the support should have been chiselled down as it has been?
I can assure him that we are certainly not going to be chiselled out of our fine position in the design and development of aircraft.
When full employment returned it meant that machinery, chisels and hammers had to be manufactured.
There is no doubt that substantial sums have been chiselled from that budget and misused.