Hold the tool in your mind: a straight piece of metal with one flat, sharp edge, and a hammer tapping the other end. Each tap lifts off a chip the size of a . Nothing happens fast. The hole in the door, the letters in the stone, the bowl inside the log — all of them arrive one small piece at a time, and once a piece is gone it does not come back. That patient taking-away is the picture the whole word grows out of.
From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces chisel through Middle English chisel and Old Northern French chisel, cisel, back to Late Latin cīsōrium 'cutting tool', from Latin caedō 'to cut', and marks it a doublet of scissors. The root simply says cutting tool, which is what the core image is.
字典把 chisel 追到中古英語 chisel、古法語 cisel，再往上是晚期拉丁語 cīsōrium（切割用的工具），源頭是拉丁語 caedō（切）。字典也註明它和 scissors（剪刀）同源。根部說的就是「用來切的東西」，跟核心畫面完全對得上；後來一個變成一片刃往裡鑿，一個變成兩片刃互相合起來剪。
Wiktionary, 'chisel' etymology 1 (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:717657525:34512)
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原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chiselnoun詞源 1/ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/
- 1
A cutting tool used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by pushing or pounding the back when the sharp edge is against the material. It consists of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end and sometimes a handle at the other end; there are hand tool versions (the original type) and versions as bits for power tools.
- 2
A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
- 3
A part of any of various tools or devices that has an analogous purpose, cutting raw material or a workpiece during the process that the tool or device performs.
- Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
chiselverb詞源 1/ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/
- 1
To use a chisel.
- 2
To work something with a chisel.
- She chiselled a sculpture out of the block of wood.
- 3
datedTo barge in on (something); to intrude on (something).
- 4
To make small changes to (something), bit by bit, resulting in change over time.
- Laws that protect the environment are being chiseled away.
- 5
informalTo beg or pressure somebody into giving up (something); to haggle excessively; to cheat; to obtain something from (someone) by cheating.
- He's managed to chisel a couple dollars from somewhere.
- She can always chisel whatever she needs from her father.
chiselnoun詞源 2/ˈt͡ʃɪzəl/
- 1
Gravel.
- 2
Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。