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bevel

[bev-uhl] / ˈbɛv əl /


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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

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

“The Rockette bevel is what it’s all about.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

The washer h is bevelled on its outer or end face to correspond with the bevel on a notch provided in lever i, as is shown.

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

If bevels, use ratio radii .082 and 12.25; and teeth numbers 16.6 and 203.8 respectively.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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

He explains that the new plank needs a beveled edge so it will fit up tight against the keel.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

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

The vertical lines of division shown on the hub a are also 1⁄40 of an inch apart, hence the bevelled edge of the sleeve advances one of the divisions on a at each rotation.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

“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 H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

The beveling may be done by roughing out with a hacksaw and finishing with a file.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

Also, the bevelling of any piece of timber or plank to any required angle: as the bearding of dead wood, clamps, &c.

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

In marine architecture, implies those frames which are square with the line of the keel, having no bevelling upon them.

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

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 William Fairham

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

A slight bevelling at the expense of the posterior margin will produce an anchylosis of the limb in a very slightly flexed position, which is found to aid the patient in walking.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell


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