chamfer
noun
a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces.
chamfers
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present tense formof chamfer (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Then, with the knife, shave off the corners so as to make four symmetrical chamfers throughout.
From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by John D. Sutcliffe
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 John Ruskin
In general, however, the shallow chamfers, a, b, e, and f, Fig.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
Mark with a pencil—not gauge—the chamfers on the ends of the posts and plane them off.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
The lanceolate windows, the time-eaten archstones and chamfers, the orientation of the axis, the misty chestnut work of the rafters, referred to no exploded fortifying art or worn-out religious creed.
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
