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Webster 1913 Edition
Bevel
1.
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 timber2.
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
. Gwilt.
Bev′el
,Adj.
1.
Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
2.
Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
[Poetic]
I may be straight, though they themselves be
bevel
. Shakespeare
A bevel angle
, any angle other than one of 90°.
– Bevel wheel
, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis.
Knight.
Bev′el
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Beveled
([GREEK]) or Bevelled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Beveling
or Bevelling
.] To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
Bev′el
,Verb.
I.
To deviate or incline from an angle of 90°, as a surface; to slant.
Their houses are very ill built, the walls
bevel
. Swift.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bevel
BEV'EL
, n.Among masons, carpenters,joiners, &c., an instrument, or kind of square, one leg of which is frequently crooked, according to the sweep of an arch or vault. It is movable on a point or center, and so may be set to any angle. An angle that is not square is called a bevel angle, whether obtuse or acute.
1.
A curve or inclination of a surface from a right line; as, the proper bevel of a piece of timber.BEV'EL
,Adj.
BEV'EL
,Verb.
T.
BEV'EL
,Verb.
I.