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noun
1.
a cut that is made in wood or some other material, usually at a 45° angle to the adjacent principal faces. Compare bevel.
verb (used with object)
2.
to make a chamfer on or in.
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Chamfered
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Origin:
1595–1605; back formation from chamfering (taken as chamfer + -ing1) < Middle French chamfrein, variant of chanfreint beveled edge, orig. past participle of chanfraindre to bevel, equivalent to chant edge (< Latin canthus; see cant2) + fraindre to break < Latin frangere; see frangible
1595–1605; back formation from chamfering (taken as chamfer + -ing1) < Middle French chamfrein, variant of chanfreint beveled edge, orig. past participle of chanfraindre to bevel, equivalent to chant edge (< Latin canthus; see cant2) + fraindre to break < Latin frangere; see frangible
Related forms
cham·fer·er, noun
un·cham·fered, adjective
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Word Origin & History
chamfered
c.1570, "channelled, fluted," from the verb form of chamfer (q.v.). Meaning "bevelled off" is from c.1790.
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