I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cold
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Blocks can be cut quite easily with a hammer and cold chisel .
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Cloud to buy a cold chisel .
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Remove any nibs with a cold chisel and club hammer and dust clean.
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If so, chop through them with a small cold chisel .
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Long after I'd been smothered in bed I could hear them Riving at the religious stonework With screwdrivers and cold chisels .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carvers' chisels differ from carpentry chisels in the way they are sharpened.
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From the hardware drawer in the kitchen I equipped myself with a hammer, a chisel , and a mean-looking screwdriver.
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Giving him a foolish little wave, she decided she'd better return the chisel before she forgot all about it.
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Lorton put the box on the kitchen table and attacked the lock with an old chisel .
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Returning the chisel to the bench, she turned to leave and came face to face with Leo's sister.
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She set it on the bench and raised hammer and chisel .
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The saws and planes and chisels and hammers were abandoned.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And every waking hour she chipped at the ugly block, sanded, scored, chiselled, gouged gaping eye sockets.
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He stopped chiselling and looked down at her.
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Some of the boats chiselled into the rocks are fairly simple.
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The best way to find out how they were attached is to chisel away a little plaster next to the rail.
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Woodpeckers, accustomed to chiselling their food out of timber, have little difficulty in cutting out nest chambers in tree trunks.