ppl. a. Also bevilled. [f. BEVEL v. + -ED1.] Made or cut to a bevel; sloped off. a. gen.
1757. Phil. Trans., L. 105. It [lightning] first struck the bevilled roof of the south-west corner.
1822. Imison, Sc. & Art, I. 453. Bevelled-wheels are much used for changing the direction of motion in wheel-work.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., II. § 11. 292. The precipice, upon a bevelled slope of which some blocks long continued to rest.
1865. Lubbock, Preh. Times, iv. (1878), 98. Brought to a bevelled edge.
b. spec. in Archit.; in Crystallog. (see quot.); in Heraldry = BEVEL A 1.
1840. T. Hope, Ess. Archit., xii. (ed. 3), I. 123. The porch … affords five bevilled entrances.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven. (1874), I. xvi. 175. I do not like the sound of the word ‘splayed’; I always shall use ‘bevelled’ instead.
1878. Gurney, Crystallog., 51. An edge is bevelled when replaced by two faces which are respectively equally inclined to the adjacent faces.
