chiseling

Chisel \Chis"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chiseled}, or {Chiselled}
   (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Chiseling}, or {Chiselling}.] [Cf. F.
   ciseler.]
   1. To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to
      chisel a block of marble into a statue.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. [Slang]
      [1913 Webster] chiseler
    

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "chiseling":
      artful, burr, calculating, collusive, covinous, crafty,
      cross-hatching, cunning, deceitful, demitint, engravement,
      engraving, etch, etching, false, falsehearted, finagling,
      fraudulent, furtive, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic,
      graving, guileful, half tint, hatching, incision, indirect,
      inscript, inscription, insidious, line, lining, marking, scheming,
      score, scoring, scratch, scratching, sharp, shifty, slash,
      slashing, slippery, sneaky, stipple, stippling, surreptitious,
      tint, tooling, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced,
      type-cutting, underhand, underhanded, wily