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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cut off the edge or corner of; bevel.
  2. v. To cut a groove in; flute.
  3. n. A flat surface made by cutting off the edge or corner of a block of wood or other material.
  4. n. A furrow or groove, as in a column.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In carpentry, a groove or furrow.
  2. n. A bevel or slope; the corner of anything originally rightangled cut away so as to make an angle with the sides which form it. Also chamfering.
  3. In carpentry, to cut a furrow in; flute; channel.—2. To cut or grind in a sloping manner, as the edge of anything square, so as to form a bevel.

Wiktionary

  1. n. woodworking, engineering, drafting, CAD an obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges
  2. v. transitive to cut off the edge or corner of something; to bevel
  3. v. transitive to cut a groove in something; to flute

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
  2. v. (Carp.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
  3. v. To make a chamfer on.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
  2. v. cut a furrow into a columns
  3. v. cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel

Etymologies

  1. Probably back-formation from chamfering, from French chanfrein, bevelled edge, from past participle of Old French chanfreindre, to bevel : chant, edge (from Latin canthus, iron tire; see cant1) + fraindre, to break (from Latin frangere; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. groove
  1. channel
  1. flute
  1. round

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  1. fillet

hypernyms (1)

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  1. cut

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  2. cello
  3. cloddy
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  1. cicatrix
  2. flute-player
  3. quint
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  1. splay
  2. chamfering
  1. chamfret
  2. countersink
  1. countersunk
  2. chamfer
  1. chine
  2. cannel
  1. dowel-pointer
  2. lug
  1. plane

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  • thtownse Often found in National and State forests. More common in summer. Variable number of sleeping accommodations. Jul 20, 2012

  • chained_bear "A beveled face formed by cutting off a corner of stone or timber." (Pretty much the same definition as is already listed here, but this one penetrated my tiny brain faster. :) ) Aug 24, 2008

  • reesetee Thanks for the info (and the new word), fearraigh. :-) Feb 22, 2007

  • fearraigh Made by planing, or chiselling off an arris Feb 22, 2007

  • reesetee A cut made in wood or other material at a 45° angle to the adjacent faces Feb 9, 2007

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