a. and adv. dial. Also chissely, chizzly. [f. CHESIL, CHISEL sb.2 gravel.] Gravelly, gritty; grittily.

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1649.  Blith, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 208. A light mixed chissely land.

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1784.  J. Twamley, Dairying Exempl., 55. Cheese made of cold Milk … is apt to cut chiselly, or that breaks or flies before the Knife.

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1830.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Chizzly, harsh and dry under the teeth.

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1888.  Elworthy, W. Somerset Wd.-bk., Chizzly, gritty, sharp: said of earth or sand.

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