The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chamfer \Cham"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chamfered; p. pr. & vb. n. Chamfering. ]
(Carp.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
To make a chamfer on.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "channelled, fluted," from the verb form of chamfer (v.); see chamfer (n.)). Meaning "bevelled off" is from c.1790.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: chamfer)
Usage examples of "chamfered".
In that business,such rare situations were digitally chamfered by the programmers with what usually worked.
Her cheekbone was represented by a rounded spur, and the spur blended almost imperceptibly with the chamfered rim of her cheek.
On the left breast of their loose black tunics was a white circle containing two overlapping horizontal bars with chamfered ends - the house badge of the TohYota family.
Behind the chamfered windows the sun was obscured by drifting wreaths of grey smoke, and the silence filled with the crackling of flames.
Its chamfered snout made a little circling motion like a clerk's pencil just about to write.
They drove down Bellevue Avenue and turned in between the chamfered wooden gate-posts surmounted by cast-iron lamps which marked the approach to the Welland villa.