chisel

1. An edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge (synset 103024375)
   is a type of: edge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge)
   subtypes:

   • burin - a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving
   • cold chisel, set chisel - narrow chisel made of steel; used to cut stone or bricks
   • drove, drove chisel - a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone
   • firmer chisel - a chisel with a thin blade for woodworking
   • ripping chisel - a long chisel with a slightly bent cutting end; used for heavy prying or cleaning mortises
   • wood chisel - a chisel for working wood; it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand

1. Engage in deceitful behavior;
   Practice trickery or fraud (synset 202580591)
   "Who's chiseling on the side?"
   is a type of: cozen, deceive, delude, lead on - be false to; be dishonest with
   subtypes:

   • job - profit privately from public office and official business
   • shark - play the shark; act with trickery
   • rig, set up - arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
   • cozen - act with artful deceit
   • crib - use a crib, as in an exam
   • cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle - tamper, with the purpose of deception
   same as: cheat
2. Deprive somebody of something by deceit (synset 202579332)
   "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
   entail: cozen, deceive, delude, lead on - be false to; be dishonest with
   is a type of: victimise, victimize - make a victim of
   subtypes:

   • gazump - raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
   • cozen - cheat or trick
   • fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge - rip off; ask an unreasonable price
   • bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize - deprive of by deceit
   • gip, gyp - (sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle
   • bilk - cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
   • beat, bunk - avoid paying
   • whipsaw - victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
   • welch, welsh - cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
   • beguile, hoodwink, juggle - influence by slyness
   same as: cheat, rip off
3. Carve with a chisel (synset 201261892)
   "chisel the marble"
   is a type of: carve, chip at - engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface

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