Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bevel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bevel \Bev"el\, n. [C. F. biveau, earlier buveau, Sp. baivel; of
unknown origin. Cf. {Bevile}.]
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 timber.
2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bevel \Bev"el\, a.
1. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
2. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [Poetic]
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
--Shak.
{A bevel angle}, any angle other than one of 90[deg].
{Bevel wheel}, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to
the axis. --Knight.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bevel \Bev"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beveled} (?) or {Bevelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Beveling} or {Bevelling}.]
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bevel \Bev"el\, v. i.
To deviate or incline from an angle of 90[deg], as a surface;
to slant.
Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel.
--Swift.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bevel
adj : having the slant of a bevel; "a bevel edge"; "a cant
buttress" [syn: {beveled}, {cant}]
n 1: two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
[syn: {cant}, {chamfer}]
2: a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together
so you can draw or measure angles of any size [syn: {bevel
square}]
v : cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; "bevel the surface" [syn:
{chamfer}]
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