- Cant - Cut at an angle - Knife edge - Mitre joint cut - Slanting edge - Surface slant - 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.
- Dorsal region - Endorse - Rear - Rear part of the body - Tail end - well look who ... - A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by
brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for
mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- To dangle; to wave hanging. - To swing for pleasure. - To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as
to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to
scutch. - To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots;
-- said of weeds. - A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet
long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a
scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and
swingling wand.