framing chisel

English

The thing on the right is a framing chisel

A framing chisel in use

Noun

framing chisel (plural framing chisels)

1. A carpenter's heavy chisel with a socket shank for making mortises.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “framing chisel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)