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Chamfering

Chamfer \Cham"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chamfered; p. pr. & vb. n. Chamfering. ]

  1. (Carp.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.

  2. To make a chamfer on.

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chamfering

vb. (present participle of chamfer English)

Usage examples of "chamfering".

Saddletrees eaten bare of their raw­hide coverings and weathered white as bone, a light chamfering of miceteeth along the edges of the wood.

He was now lying face up, modelled perfectly into the beach by a chamfering and moulding of precipitated sand.

The rumor of floods chamfering the rusty plains, grooving the reddish black slurry floors with the toilings of water, fans out and melts away into the dark amber glass of alien mantle beds.