beveller

noun — 2 senses

beveller

noun

UK /ˈbɛvələ/ · US /ˈbɛvəlɚ/

Etymology From bevel + -er.

1

One who bevels.

  • He scoured Florence looking at coopers with their heavy wooden hammers, the wool dyers with their arms stained blue and green, the ironmongers, blacksmiths, rustic stone bevelers working the Strozzi palace […]1961, Irving Stone, chapter 4, in The Agony and the Ecstasy, New York: Signet, page 202:
  • The bevelers of early America often affixed a highly individualized “beveler’s mark” to their finished products.1981, Vincent L. Fox, Glass Beveling, Hidden House, page 35:
1 more example
  • There were doorbells of moribund trades, a glass beveller, a “Church and Legal” printer.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 16, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
2

A tool or machine used for bevelling.

  • bamboo beveller
  • pipe beveller
1 more example
  • soap beveller

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