chamfered, ppl. a.
(ˈtʃæmfəd)
[f. prec.]
1. Channelled, fluted, furrowed, grooved. arch.
| 1565–73 Cooper Thesaur., Striatus, chamfered, chanelled. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb., Comes the breme winter with chamfred browes, Full of wrinkles and frosty furrowes. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden ccci. 565 A stalk..straked or chamfered. 1822 Monthly Mag. LIII. 395 A horn, chamfered or fluted longitudinally. |
2. Bevelled off (as a square angle), having the arris replaced by a plane.
| c 1790 J. Imison Sch. Art I. 21 Chisels, and other edge tools, which are chamfered only on one side. 1793 Sir G. Shuckburgh in Phil. Trans. LXXXIII. 91 All these, as well as every other adjusting screw throughout the instrument, have chamfered heads. 1862 Macm. Mag. Apr. 529 The solid stone piers, with chamfered angles. |