chisel: [14] Chisel and scissors are related, for both come ultimately from Latin caedere ‘cut’ (source of a range of other English words from cement to concise and decide). From its past participle caesus was formed an unrecorded Vulgar Latin term for a cutting tool, probably *caesellus. This must have become changed at some point to *cīsellus, probably under the influence of late Latin cīsōrium (source of English scissors), itself derived from caedere. This passed into Old Northern French as chisel, and thence into English. (The modern French equivalent, in the plural, is ciseaux ‘scissors’.) => cement, concise, decide, precise, scissors
chisel (n.)
early 14c., from Anglo-French cisel, Old French cisel "chisel," in plural, "scissors, shears" (12c., Modern French ciseau), from Vulgar Latin *cisellum "cutting tool," from Latin caesellum, diminutive of caesus, past participle of caedere "to cut" (see -cide). Related: Chiseled; chiseling.
chisel (v.)
c. 1500, "to break with a chisel," from chisel (n.). Slang sense of "to cheat, defraud" is first recorded in 1808 as chizzel; origin and connection to the older word are obscure (compare slang sense of gouge); chiseler in this sense is from 1918. Related: Chiseled; chiseling.
实用例句
1. He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
他用榔头和凿子铲墙。
来自柯林斯例句
2. This chisel is useful for getting into awkward spaces.
这凿子在要伸入到犄角儿里时十分有用.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. This will answer for a chisel.
这东西可以当凿子用.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Camille used a hammer and chisel to carve out a figure from the marble.
