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chisel

(v): engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

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(v): be false to; be dishonest with

(v): deprive somebody of something by deceit

(v): make a victim of

(v): carve with a chisel

(v): engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface

(n): an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge

(n): any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge)

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1 minute ago bilby said:

"'Did you take the quarter-inch chisel, Delia?'
'Is that a big chisel, Sam?' she asked innocently.
'No,' he drawled. 'Not much bigger than a quarter of an inch, if you know what that is.'
'I think it might be on top of the press, Sam,' she said guiltily.
'Why the hell women can't put things back where they find them!' he grunted as he got a chair."
- Frank O'Connor, 'The Cheapjack'.

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