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bevelled, beveled, ppl. a.|ˈbɛvəld|
Also bevilled.
[f. bevel v. + -ed1.]
Made or cut to a bevel; sloped off. a. gen.
1757Phil. Trans. L. 105 The bevilled roof of the south-west corner. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art I. 453 Bevelled-wheels are much used for changing the direction of motion in wheel-work. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §11. 292 The precipice, upon a bevelled slope of which some blocks long continued to rest. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times iv. (1878) 98 Brought to a bevelled edge.
b. spec. in Archit.; in Cryst. (see quot.); in Heraldry = bevel A 1.
1840T. Hope Ess. Archit. xii. (ed. 3) I. 123 The porch..affords five bevilled entrances. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. xvi. 175, I do not like the sound of the word ‘splayed’; I always shall use ‘bevelled’ instead. 1878Gurney Crystallog. 51 An edge is bevelled when replaced by two faces which are respectively equally inclined to the adjacent faces. |