CHAMPFER See also:

• CHAMPFER CHAMFER

CHAMFER  Or CHAUMFER (Fr. chanfrein; possibly from See also:

• LAT

Lat. cant us, corner, and frangere, to break), an architectural See also:

• TERM

term; when the edge or See also:

• ARRIS (Fr. areste, or arete)

arris of any See also:

• WORK

work is cut off at an See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of 45° in a small degree, it is said to be " chamfered," while it would be " canted " if on a large See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale . The See also:

• CHAMFER, CHAMPFER

chamfer is much used in See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval work, and is sometimes See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, sometimeshollowed out and sometimes moulded .