chisel

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chisel /ˈtʃɪz(ə)l/

▶noun a long-bladed hand tool with a bevelled cutting edge, struck with a hammer or mallet to cut or shape wood, stone, or metal. ▶verb (chisels, chiselling, chiselled; US chisels, chiseling, chiseled)

• 1 cut or shape with a chisel.

• 2 (as adj. chiselled) (of a man's facial features) strongly and clearly defined.

• 3 informal, chiefly N. Amer. cheat or swindle (someone) out of something.

– derivatives
chiseller noun.

– origin ME: from Old North. Fr., based on L. cis- (as in late L. cisorium), var. of caes-, caedere ‘to cut’.