- [transitive, intransitive] chisel (something) (+ adv./prep.) to cut or shape wood or stone with a chisel(用鑿子)鑿,刻,雕
- A name was chiselled into the stone.石頭上刻着一個名字。
- She was chiselling some marble.她在雕刻大理石。
- a temple chiselled out of solid rock在岩石中鑿出的廟宇。
- [transitive] chisel somebody (out of something) (informal, especially North American English) to get money or some advantage from somebody by cheating them欺騙;哄騙;騙取
- They chiseled him out of hundreds of dollars.他們騙了他幾百元錢。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old Northern French, based on Latin cis- (as in late Latin cisorium), variant of caes-, stem of caedere ‘to cut’. Compare with scissors.