ppl. a. [f. prec.]
1. Channelled, fluted, furrowed, grooved. arch.
1565–73. Cooper, Thesaurus, 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. Imison, Sch. Arts, 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., April, 529/1. The solid stone piers, with chamfered angles, receive from one to the other the feet of the discharging arches that bear the weight above.
