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  • verb Present participle of bevel.
  • noun A bevel, a bevelled facet.

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Examples

  • Such welds require a preparation of the surfaces (bevelling) and are thus very labour intensive.

    6 STEEL TRUSSES 1999

  • A freckled boy of about seventeen was stooped over his jointer, busy bevelling a barrel-stave, and another a year or two younger was carefully paring long bands of willow for binding the staves together when the barrel was set up in its truss hoop.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

  • A freckled boy of about seventeen was stooped over his jointer, busy bevelling a barrel-stave, and another a year or two younger was carefully paring long bands of willow for binding the staves together when the barrel was set up in its truss hoop.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

  • A very small hack saw (costing about 1s.) with fine teeth is the best possible tool for close cutting, and a small 1 shilling iron plane is invaluable for truing and bevelling the edges.

    Things To Make Archibald Williams

  • Work the edges of A down carefully (double-bevelling them if the notches are V-shaped) till A will run easily, but not loosely, in the box.

    Things To Make Archibald Williams

  • When _in situ_ it is accommodated by the _Cutigeral Groove_, a cavity produced by the bevelling out of the superior portion of the inner face of the wall of the hoof.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • In this case prevention may be brought about either by shoeing with a shoe whose ground surface is wholly concave, or by bevelling off the sharp border (see Fig. 110, _a_, p. 236).

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • A jig, or cradle, is easily made by bevelling the edges of two separate pieces of wood and then glueing and screwing them together as at Fig. 191.

    Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham

  • After separation they were again placed together to harden under pressure, when the final operations consisted of bevelling the teeth on wheels covered with sand-paper, rounding the backs, rounding and pointing the teeth; after which came the polishing, papering and putting in boxes.

    Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls Anonymous

  • I have used the in-lay bark, modified cleft, the cleft, and what I call a saddle graft, bevelling two sides of the stock and splitting the scion, thus slipping the split scion down over the prepared stock.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952

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