bevel
noun /ˈbevl/
/ˈbevl/
- enlarge imagea sloping edge or surface, for example at the side of a picture frame or sheet of glass
- a tool for making sloping edges on wood or stone
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘oblique’): from an Old French diminutive of baif ‘open-mouthed’, from baer ‘to gape’.