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▪ I. ˈbevelling, beveling, vbl. n. Also bevilling. [f. as bevelled, beveled ppl. a. + -ing1.] 1. A cutting to an oblique angle; the oblique angle or slant so given; a bevelled portion or surface: esp. in Shipbuilding.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Bevelling, in ship building, the art of hewing a timber with a proper and regular curve. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xviii. (1856) 138 A sort of beveling prevented the ice-mass from actual contact with the bottom. 1869E. J. Reed Shipbuild. xx. 430 Care has to be taken in bringing the flanges to the correct bevilling. 2. Comb., as bevelling-board (Shipbuilding.), see quot.; bevelling-machine, a book-binder's machine for bevelling the edges of a book-cover.
c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 96 Bevelling-board, a piece of deal on which the bevellings or angles of the timbers, etc. are described. ▪ II. ˈbevelling, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] Slanting, oblique, cut to an obtuse angle. bevelling edge (Shipbuilding): ‘the edge of a ship's frame, which is in contact with the skin, and which is worked from the moulding-edge, or that which is represented in the draft.’
1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 91 You Saw the Bevilling Angles. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 154 Syphered, a mode of joining,..with a bevelling edge. |