"chisel" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a verb, e.g. "She used a chisel to carve a sculpture out of the piece of wood."
In one of her last interviews, she described a perfect day at her Porthmeor studio watching the Atlantic rollers carving the shoreline in these terms: "The strokes of the hammer on the chisel should be in time with your heartbeat.
And finally, will Ukip gain more than the couple of seats currently projected – and if they do, who will they chisel away from?
But I think it's also because they speak to something primal, something honest and irresistible and essential about human nature, something that remains after you chisel away our pretentiousness: to fight, to fuck, to shout ominous lines".
(The most alarming attempts to chisel away at reproductive rights are largely taking place in statehouses).
Campaigners for legal reform, such as Inquest or Liberty, are puzzled about why the state has felt the need to take a hammer and chisel to chip off a bit of the constitution for no pressing reason.
The Fed's aggressive stance will chisel away at the dollar, helping to narrow America's trade deficit and boost growth.Unfortunately, fiscal policy will be working against recovery.
In their 1984 encounter the chisel-faced Karpov lost eight kilos.
He is a boat-rocking libertarian with a chisel-jawed faith in a small state and the power of the little man transmitted through the internet.
On the face of it, the chisel-jawed, designer-outfitted athlete has little in common with the quaint imaginings of a homely farmer.
He would stretch the H-section lead strips, or cames, to stop "creep" in the soft, ductile metal; cut them expertly straight with his pliers, so as to leave no gaps between them when they were moulded round the glass pieces; apply the hot chisel-tip of the soldering iron just long enough to melt the solder, not the lead, when joining the strips together.
These three materials, all softer than rock but nevertheless intractable, could not be worked successfully without the aid of harder rock tools, such as serrated blades and gravers, or burins, small scrapers with either pointed or narrow, chisel-like ends.
