Definition of bevel

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Bevel (n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber..

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Bevilled :: Bevilled (a.) Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.
Bevel :: Bevel (n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber..
Bevelled :: Bevelled (a.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaced by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid..
Bevel :: Bevel (a.) Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
Bevelment :: Bevelment (n.) The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes..
Gear :: Gear (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively..
Countersunk :: Countersunk (p. p. & a.) Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead..
Mitre :: Mitre (n.) The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint..
Splayfeet :: Splay (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them..
Bevel :: Bevel (v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90ยก, as a surface; to slant..
Cone :: Cone (v. t.) To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels..
Bevel :: Bevel (n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square..
Bevelled :: Bevelled (a.) Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table..
Beveled :: Beveled (a.) Alt. of Bevelle.
Draught :: Draught (n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold..
Shears :: Shears (n.) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances..
Snape :: Snape (v. t.) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
Bevelled :: Bevelled () of Beve.
Bevel :: Bevel (a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
Beveled :: Beveled (imp. & p. p.) of Beve.
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