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
The men were put over the side with ice saws and chisels to saw and chip away the ice ahead of the bows.
The chiselled, unperturbed musical themes of the ballet are heard as distinct events, elements of an abstract design that could very easily be a full-fledged text as indecipherable as hieroglyphs.
They were objects he had carved out of the state of nature for his patrons, and yet they were not like a statue chiseled out of a block of marble.
We then chiselled out of it and did not give the aid.
We may also run the danger of being chiselled out of the manufacturing industry in the supersonic era.
Anything that chisels away at those assumptions can be unwise.
They have got to be chiselled into the artificial and unnatural conditions of town life.
There is no doubt that substantial sums have been chiselled from that budget and misused.