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The one downstairs room, the "Great Hall," has exposed posts, beams, and wall plates, with chamfers terminating in crude "lamb's tongues."

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

Then apply Exercise 4, and so bevel the sides and ends as to make chamfers, as shown in Figs.

From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by Sutcliffe, John D.

I have placed in the Appendix73 a figure belonging to this subject, but which cannot interest the general reader, showing the number of possible chamfers with a roll moulding of given size.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

In general, however, the shallow chamfers, a, b, e, and f, Fig.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

Then, with the spokeshave, remove the corners of the chamfers, and proceed with the paring down until the required symmetrical elliptical shape is arrived at, as shown by Figs.

From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by Sutcliffe, John D.