meaning of chisel

1. A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc. ; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
2. To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
3. To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
4. CHISEL An extension of C for VLSI design, implemented as a C preprocessor. It produces CIF as output. ["CHISEL - An Extension to the Programming language C for VLSI Layout", K. Karplus, PHD Thesis, Stanford U, 1982]. chm Compiled HTML chmod system> "Change mode" The Unix command and system call to change the access permissions of a named file. Each file directory, device, etc. has nine kinds of access which can be allowed or denied. Different permissions apply to the owner of the file, the members of the group the file belongs to, and all users. Each of these classes of user owner, group and other can have permission to read, write or execute the file. Chmod can also set various other mode bits for a file or directory such as the sticky bit and the set user id bit. Unix man page: chmod
5. an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge

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