bevel

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: bev=el

CIDE DICTIONARY

bevel, n. [C. F. biveau, earlier buveau, Sp. baivel; of unknown origin. Cf. Bevile.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

bevel, a. 

•  Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.  [1913 Webster]

  "I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel."  [1913 Webster]

A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90 -- Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.

bevel, v. t. 

 To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.  [1913 Webster]

bevel, v. i. 

 To deviate or incline from an angle of 901913 Webster]
"Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bevel, n. & v.
--n.
1 a slope from the horizontal or vertical in carpentry and stonework; a sloping surface or edge.
2 (in full bevel square) a tool for marking angles in carpentry and stonework.
--v. (bevelled, bevelling; US beveled, beveling)
1 tr. reduce (a square edge) to a sloping edge.
2 intr. slope at an angle; slant.

Idiom

bevel gear a gear working another gear at an angle to it by means of bevel wheels. bevel wheel a toothed wheel whose working face is oblique to the axis.

Etymology

OF bevel (unrecorded) f. ba{iuml}f f. baer gape

THESAURUS

bevel

ascender, astrolabe, azimuth circle, azimuth compass, back, bank, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel protractor, bevel square, beveled, bezel, bias, biased, black letter, body, cap, capital, case, chute, clinometer, counter, descender, easy slope, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, fleam, font, gentle slope, glacis, goniometer, grade, gradient, graphometer, groove, hanging gardens, helicline, hillside, inclination, incline, inclined plane, italic, launching ramp, letter, ligature, logotype, lower case, majuscule, minuscule, nick, pantometer, pi, pica, pitch, point, print, protractor, quadrant, radiogoniometer, ramp, roman, sans serif, scarp, script, sextant, shank, shelving beach, shoulder, side, slanted, slanting, slope, small cap, small capital, stamp, steep slope, stem, stiff climb, talus, theodolite, transit, transit circle, transit instrument, transit theodolite, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case

ROGET THESAURUS

bevel

Obliquity

N obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness, slopeness, leaning, bevel, tilt, bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch, distortion, bend, tower of Pisa, acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity, gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent, shelving beach, talus, monagne Russe, facilis descensus averni.