BEVEL (from an O. Fr. word, cf. mod. biveau, a joiner's instrument)

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BEVEL (from an O. Fr. word, cf. mod. biveau, a joiner's instrument) , the inclination of one surface of a solid

body

BODY

to another; also, any

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

other than a right

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

, and particularly, in

joinery

JOINERY

, the angle to which a piece of timber has to be cut. The mechanic's

instrument

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

known as a bevel consists of a

rule

RULE

with two arms so jointed as to be adjustable to any angle. In heraldry, a bevel is an angular break in a line. Bevelment, as a

term

TERM

of crystallography, means the replacement of an edge of a crystal by two planes equally inclined to the adjacent planes. As an architectural

term

TERM

" bevel " is a sloped or canted edge given to a sill or

horizontal

HORIZONTAL

course of stone, but is more frequently applied to the canted edges worked round the projecting bands of masonry which for decorative purposes are employed on the

quoins

QUOINS (an old variant spelling of " coin," from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

of walls or windows and in some cases, with vertical joints, cover the whole

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

. When the outer face of the stone band is left rough so that it forms what is known as rusticated masonry, the description would be bevelled and rusticated. The term is sometimes applied to the splaying of the edges of a window on the outside, but the wide expansion made inside in order to admit more light is known as a splay.

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