Also bevilling. [f. as prec. + -ING1.]
1. A cutting to an oblique angle; the oblique angle or slant so given; a bevelled portion or surface: esp. in Shipbuilding.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Bevelling, in ship building, the art of hewing a timber with a proper and regular curve.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xviii. (1856), 138. A sort of beveling prevented the ice-mass from actual contact with the bottom.
1869. Sir E. Reed, Shipbuild., xx. 430. Care has to be taken in bringing the flanges to the correct bevilling.
2. Comb., as bevelling-board (Shipbuild.), see quot.; bevelling-machine, a book-binder’s machine for bevelling the edges of a book-cover.
c. 1850. Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 96. Bevelling-board, a piece of deal on which the bevellings or angles of the timbers, etc. are described.
