chamfer.html - v. & n.
--v.

tr. bevel symmetrically (a right-angled edge or corner).

--n.

a bevelled surface at an edge or corner. [back-form. f. chamfering f. F chamfrain f. chant edge (CANT(2)) + fraint broken f. OF fraindre break f. L frangere]

chamfer.html - v. & n.
--v.

tr. bevel symmetrically (a right-angled edge or corner).

--n.

a bevelled surface at an edge or corner. [back-form. f. chamfering f. F chamfrain f. chant edge (CANT(2)) + fraint broken f. OF fraindre break f. L frangere]

chamfer.html - {v. phr.} To be eager to begin; be tired of being held back; want to start. * /The horses were champing at the bit, anxious to start racing./ * /As punishment John was kept after school for two hours. He was champing at the bit to go out./

chamfer.html - n.
a plant whose buds are on or near the ground. [Gk khamai on the ground + -PHYTE]

chamfer.html - n.
1 a a hall used by a legislative or judicial body. b the body that meets in it. c any of the houses of a parliament (Chamber of Deputies; second chamber).
2 (in pl.) Brit. Law a rooms used by a barrister or group of barristers, esp. in the Inns of Court. b a judge's room used for hearing cases not needing to be taken in court.
3 poet. or archaic a room, esp. a bedroom.
4 Mus. (attrib.) of or for a small group of instruments (chamber orchestra; chamber music).
5 an enclosed space in machinery etc. (esp. the part of a gun-bore that contains the charge).
6 a a cavity in a plant or in the body of an animal. b a compartment in a structure.
7 = chamber-pot.

Chamber of Commerce an association to promote local commercial interests. chamber-pot a receptacle for urine etc., used in a bedroom. [ME f. OF chambre f. L CAMERA]

chamfer.html - adj.
(of a tomb) containing a burial chamber.