Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Among masons, carpenters, joiners, etc., an instrument, or kind of square, one leg of which is frequently crooked, according to the sweep of an arch or vault. It is movable on a point or center, and so may be set to any angle. An angle that is not square is called a bevel angle, whether obtuse or acute.
2. A curve or inclination of a surface from a right line; as, the proper bevel of a piece of timber.
To curve; to incline towards a point, or from a direct line.
To cut a bevel angle.
2. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
1. 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.
2. 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.
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
Bevel gear
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Curving; bending from a right line.
1. A hewing of timber with a proper and regular curve, according to a mold laid on one side of its surface.
2. The curve or bevel of timber.
In mineralogy, bevelment supposes the removal of two contiguous segments from the edges, angles or terminal faces of the predominant form, thereby producing two new faces, inclined to each other at a certain angle and forming an edge.
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
Obliquity Roget’s Thesaurus §217
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
V. intersect, lack parallelism
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0 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Bevel”
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;