“Are we going to sit back and watch one dirty chiseler after another steal the nicest orders from us?”
“As William Safire has suggested, that may have been the work of an absent-minded chiseler.”
“Garfield's visceral acting and Shaw and Rossen's forceful screenplay compel us, perhaps against our will, to accept Jacob Goff as an amoral, compassionless chiseler.”
“A circular saw lets you precut the broad surfaces of stone with greater control and accuracy than most people can achieve with a chisel.”
chisel
A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end. It may be provided with a handle at the other end. It is used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by placing the sharp edge against the material to be cut and pushing or pounding the other end with a hammer, or mallet.