beveller

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Etymology

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From bevel +‎ -er.

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Noun

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beveller (plural bevellers)

  1. One who bevels.
    • 1961, Irving Stone, chapter 4, in The Agony and the Ecstasy, New York: Signet, page 202:
      He scoured Florence looking at coopers with their heavy wooden hammers, the wool dyers with their arms stained blue and green, the ironmongers, blacksmiths, rustic stone bevelers working the Strozzi palace []
    • 1981, Vincent L. Fox, Glass Beveling[1], Hidden House, page 35:
      The bevelers of early America often affixed a highly individualized “beveler’s mark” to their finished products.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 16, in The Line of Beauty [], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
      There were doorbells of moribund trades, a glass beveller, a “Church and Legal” printer.
  2. A tool or machine used for bevelling.
    bamboo beveller
    pipe beveller
    soap beveller