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
Shifting into fifth gear, I straddled the centerline to correct the bevel toward the borrow pit and accelerated into triple digits.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
“So if you do it at an angle, it will have a bevel edge.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
“The Rockette bevel is what it’s all about.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020
Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; Ð said of a partition line of a shield.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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
Use a chop saw to put 45-degree bevels at the corners and screw the box together using exterior trimhead wood screws that are 2.5 or 3 inches long.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 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
"It is swell, I declare!" said Jane, with her eye on the wrought-iron work of the outer doors, and the jewels and bevels of the inner ones.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
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
A St. Patrick’s Day decoration hung on the other side of the beveled glass door as I buzzed the receptionist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
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
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
Staff would deliver trays of prototype phones for him to inspect and pore over, spinning them to check for balance and running his fingers across the bevelled edges and joints.
From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2013
There was a sideboard of carved oak that had only one fault, it reminded Kipps at times of wood-carving, and its panel of bevelled glass now reflected the back of his head.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
“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
The feet can be made first by squaring up one end of each and beveling the other as shown in the drawing.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)
At the same time, the form tool No. 10, held at the rear of the cross-slide, is fed up for beveling the flange to an angle of 60 degrees.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Jones, Franklin D.
The preventive treatment is the bevelling, or rounding off of the inside edge or rim of the hind shoes.
Very thick books have a rather clumsy appearance with their many superimposed boards; this is improved by bevelling on all four sides the upper thick board.
From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul
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 Sutcliffe, John D.
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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
A jig, or cradle, is easily made by bevelling the edges of two separate pieces of wood and then glueing and screwing them together as at Fig.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by Fairham, William
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