Noun: chisel
| Singular | chisel |
| Plural | chisels |
Sample Sentences
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Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
Nouns inflected like chisel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Late Latin cīsōrium
3. Old French cisoir
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-is
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
7. Proto-Italic *-ālis
8. Latin -ālis
9. Old French -el
10. Old French cisel
11. Anglo-Norman chiselbor.
12. Middle English chisel
13. English chisel
14. From Middle English chisel, chesel, from Old Northern French chisel, cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”), from Latin caedō (“cut”). Doublet of scissors. See: Middle English Nouns '
chisel', Latin Nouns '
caedō'.
Verbs referencing "chisel"
Russian Nouns
чизель.