Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
bevel, chamfer
(verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; “bevel the surface”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bevelled
simple past tense and past participle of bevel
bevelled (not comparable)
Having a bevel, especially at an edge
Source: Wiktionary
Bev"eled, Bev"elled, a.
1. Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.
2. (Min.) Replaced by two planes inclining equally upon the adjacent planes, as an edge; having its edges replaces by sloping planes, as a cube or other solid.
Bev"el, n. Etym: [C. F. biveau, earlier buveau, Sp. baivel; of unknown origin. Cf. Bevile.]
1. Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.
2. An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. Gwilt.
Bev"el, a.
1. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
2. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. [Poetic] I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel. Shak. A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90Âş.
– Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.
Bev"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beveled (Bevelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Beveling or Bevelling.]
Definition: To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
Bev"el, v. i.
Definition: To deviate or incline from an angle of 90 Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 May 2025
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.