The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CHISEL
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More clues leading to the result CHISEL
- Carpentry tool from church lies abandoned
- Chile's flexible tool
- Carve letters in Greek and English one spelled out
- Tool found in workbench is electric
- Tool in bench is electric
- Cut and slice bananas round tip of branch
- Cheat caught by Interpol finally, is he wrongly being imprisoned?
- Tool found in ditch is electronic
- Swindle is covered up by revolutionary Left
- Tool that man’s taken into small room that’s unfinished
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The straight part
We know that "Carve" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case carve = chisel.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CHISEL mean?
CHISEL noun- A cutting tool consisting of a slim, oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end. It may be provided with a handle at the other end. It is used to remove parts of stone, wood or metal by placing the sharp edge against the material to be cut and pushing or pounding the other end with a hammer or mallet.
- To use a chisel.
- To work something with a chisel.
- To cheat, to get something by cheating.
- Gravel.
- (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.