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wood chisel

n. a chisel for working wood; it is either struck with a mallet or pushed by hand

Usage examples of "wood chisel".

The rest of the porch was taken up with woodworking equipment: a lathe, a drill press, a router, a couple of C clamps, a vise, a wood chisel, a table saw, and an assortment of planes.

A half-inch wood chisel, apparently quite ordinary in every respect except that its wooden handle had been sheathed by a bicycle's rubber hand-grip, the kind that doesn't show fingerprints.

Then he took a small wood chisel from the bench and began cutting a small circle.

Instinctively he whirled about, snatching up a wood chisel for a weapon.

But remember there was a time when he was slicing people's ears off with a wood chisel.

The glass-fronted doors were intact from which I assumed that Lonnie Gilbert's bunch of keys were capable of opening most things: had they failed here I would have looked for signs of the use of some other instrument, not, perhaps, the berserk wielding of a fire axe but at least the discreet employment of a wood chisel: but there were no such signs.