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Volume 3 · 48 words · 1797 Edition

among masons, carpenters, &c. a kind of square, one leg whereof is frequently crooked, according to the sweep of an arch or vault. It is moveable on a centre, and so may be set to any angle.

BEVEL-Angle, any other angle besides those of 90 or 45 degrees.