Meaning & use
Chiseling
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Shaping, carving, or cutting material such as stone or wood using a chisel.
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The sculptor spent weeks chiseling the marble block into a lifelike figure.
He was chiseling a groove into the wood to fit the joint precisely.
A note on using this word
Informally, 'chiseling' also means cheating or swindling someone out of money, a sense that dates back to nineteenth-century slang.
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carvingsculpting
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2. verb
(informal) Cheating or swindling someone, especially out of money.
He accused the contractor of chiseling him on the price of the repairs.
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