bevelling Definition

bevel
noun

1. A sloping edge to a surface, meeting another surface at an angle between the horizontal and the vertical.
2. A tool which makes such a sloping edge on a piece of wood, stone or glass.

verb bevelled, bevelling, beveled, beveling

1. To give a bevel or slant to (eg a piece of wood).
intr
2. To slope at an angle.

Derivative: bevelled
adj

Etymology: 16c; first used in heraldry referring to an angled line, and apparently from an older form of the French beveau a bevel (sense 2): ultimately from French baer to gape.