What does beveller mean?
A beveller is a specialist tool used to produce a bevel, the sloping edge that replaces a sharp corner on wood, metal, stone, or another workable material. The term can also denote a worker who performs this operation, especially in woodworking or metalworking. A beveller may be a hand tool, a cutting machine, or another device designed to remove material evenly at an angle. In ordinary English, the word is mainly technical, but it is useful because it names the agent or instrument behind a familiar visual result: an eased, angled edge. British English generally spells it beveller, while American English more often uses beveler for the same noun. Outside workshop and manufacturing contexts, the term is uncommon, and speakers may instead refer to a bevelling tool, a bevelling machine, or the resulting feature as a bevel or chamfer.
nounA beveller is a tool or machine used to cut a bevel, or sloping edge, on wood, metal, stone, or another material. By extension, it can mean a person whose work is bevelling edges.
- A tool, machine, or other device used to cut a sloping edge on a workpiece.
- A person whose occupation is to cut or finish bevelled edges.
"The carpenter used a beveller to soften the sharp corners of the cabinet."
"The carpenter used a beveller to soften the sharp corners of the cabinet."
"The stone beveller checked the edge of the memorial before it was installed."
The plural is formed regularly by adding -s.
"The workshop has two bevellers for finishing the cabinet edges."
A beveller does one deceptively simple job: turn a sharp edge into a clean slope.
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Where does beveller come from?
The English noun bevel, borrowed from Old French, supplied the root for beveller. Adding the productive suffix -er, which forms words denoting instruments and agents, produced a term for a tool that cuts bevels or a person who performs that work. Modern British spelling retains the doubled l, while the usual American form is beveler.
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How beveller is actually used
The word is mainly used in woodworking, metalworking, masonry, and manufacturing. British English generally prefers beveller, whereas American English commonly uses beveler.
Easily confused with beveller
A bevel is the sloping edge or cut itself; a beveller is the tool, machine, or worker that makes it.
A leveller makes a surface horizontal or even, whereas a beveller cuts an angled edge.