bevel
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To bear up under the higher stress, the PDK’s clutches, gearsets and bevel gear have all been reinforced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Often, the city’s answer is a temporary bevel and shim fix — either grinding down edges on cracked sidewalks or adding a small amount of asphalt to bridge the gaps.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
Even when I'm cutting a pumpkin, I will cut a little bevel on the bottom, just cut a little edge off, and now it is solid on the board.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2022
“The Rockette bevel is what it’s all about.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020
Into the rack j fits the worm wheel k, at the bottom of the shaft of which is a pair of bevel gear wheels l, which are operated by the hand wheel m.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The aim was realism in the inflatables’ corners and bevels but with distortion and accentuation in certain curves.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Staircases that had simple bevels and architecture give way to columbines, lotuses and other ornate features carved into the walnut and mahogany.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020
It in fact produces what Chef’sChoice calls a Gothic Arch Edge, which consists of three distinct bevels, the final one at 15 degrees.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018
A whisper of sweetness bevels the crisp edges.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
Tools used for forming the angles of two adjoining surfaces, are squares and bevels.
From Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
With a beveled chord progression and a haunting repetition of the name, it became perhaps her most requested song, and was covered by many, including the White Stripes, Candi Staton, Reba McEntire and Olivia Newton-John.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Their beveled corners are polished to a high glossy sheen, which creates slender vertical stripes that contrast sharply with the charcoal shadows from which they emerge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Do you want to know if someone needs a changing table topper with beveled sides, preferably before Friday?
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2025
This flat piece will have beveled edges and it will be secured to the roof ridge board.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
As he talks, I shed layers, tossing stuff onto the marble table below the big beveled mirror.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
He has also acted in theatre and on screen, busked, potted, bevelled glass, made music and made people laugh - he's about to cameo in TV series Black Comedy, which showcases indigenous sketches.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2019
These driftwood sculptures were first recorded by a Danish expedition in the 1880s, along with bas-relief versions of fjords, carefully grooved and bevelled to represent headland depths.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2017
But, amid waves of contact, large languages lose their sharp edges, becoming bevelled as pieces of glass.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
"The cause is Ozymandian The map of Sapokanikan Is sanded and bevelled The land lone and levelled By some unrecorded and powerful hand Which plays along the monument And drums upon a plastic bag"
From The Verge ● Oct. 23, 2015
A narrow movable bar, bevelled to the front of the bed, holds these keys when the lay cords are tightened.
From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam
“I wanted to keep the planters very linear, without any beveling on the edges, and that informed my material choice,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Plywood is made from layers of compressed sheets, which the beveling reveals at the sides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
We settled on a sculptural stylized version and this sketch shows a study in variations on the amount of beveling and possible finishes.
From Time ● Mar. 4, 2015
They make a sound shrill as the scream of machinery beveling marble.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
How many centuries of cutting and gouging, beveling and grooving were required to accomplish this, who can tell?
Then, on the planed side, mark 21⁄4 in. at one end, 11⁄4 in. at the other end, and take to that width, afterwards bevelling the edge as before.
From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by John D. Sutcliffe
Absurd, wasn't it, but the Ranger was not dreaming about the bevelling trowel of the titan mountain gods?
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
This may, however, be remedied to a great extent by bevelling off the ends from the outside as shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The alteration made inside a square in hewing timber, as opposed to standing bevelling.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
When in situ it is accommodated by the Cutigeral Groove, a cavity produced by the bevelling out of the superior portion of the inner face of the wall of the hoof.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
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