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chamfer

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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cham=fer

CIDE DICTIONARY

chamfern. [See Chamfron.].
     The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.  [1913 Webster]
chamferv. t. 
  •  To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To make a chamfer on.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chamfer, v. & n.
--v.tr. bevel symmetrically (a right-angled edge or corner).
--n. a bevelled surface at an edge or corner.

Etymology
back-form. f. chamfering f. F chamfrain f. chant edge (CANT(2)) + fraint broken f. OF fraindre break f. L frangere

ROGET THESAURUS

chamfer

Furrow

N furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit, chamfer, fluting, corduroy road, cradle hole, channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke, moat, fosse, trough, kennel, ravine, tajo, thank-ye-ma'am, furrowed, ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated, bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated, canaliferous, trisulcate, corduroy, unisulcate, costate, rimiform.


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