CHAMFER, CHAMPFER

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CHAMFER, CHAMPFER Or CHAUMFER (Fr. chanfrein; possibly from Lat. cant us, corner, and frangere, to break), an architectural

term

TERM

; when the edge or

arris

ARRIS (Fr. areste, or arete)

of any

work

WORK

is cut off at an

angle

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

of 45 in a small degree, it is said to be " chamfered," while it would be " canted " if on a large

scale

SCALE
SCALE (1) A

. The chamfer is much used in

medieval

MEDIEVAL

work

WORK

, and is sometimes plain, sometimeshollowed out and sometimes moulded. Chamfers are sometimes " stopped " by a

bead

BEAD

or some moulding, but when cut short by a slope they are generally known as " stop chamfer."

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