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bevel
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As I Lay Dying
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- I'm going to bevel it," he says.†
Chpt 17bevel = join at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
- Vernon holds the board steady while Cash, bevels the edge of it with the tedious and minute care of a jeweler.
Chpt 17 *bevels = joins at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
- Cash I made it on the bevel.†
Chpt 18bevel = join at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
- The animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on the bevel.†
Chpt 18
- You can see by an old grave that the earth sinks down on the bevel.†
Chpt 18
- So I made it on the bevel.†
Chpt 18
- Cash made it clock-shape, like this seam bevelled and with every joint a scrubbed with the plane, tight as a drum and neat as a sewing basket, and they had laid her in it head to foot so it wouldn't crush her dress.†
Chpt 20unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled beveled.
Definitions:
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(1)
(bevel as in: beveled edge) two surfaces meeting at an angle (that isn't 90 degrees)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)