chamfering (chamfering)

chamfer, v.] Same as chamfer, 2. The roof... is exceeding beautiful,... very sumptuous frettings or chamfer ings. 917 Coryat , Crudities, I. 31. chamfrett, n. and v. [See chamfer.] Same as chamfer. of chamfreting (cham'fret-ing), n. [Verbal n. chamfret, v.] The splay of a window, etc. E. H. Knight. chamfron (cham'fron), n. [OF. chamfrein , F. chanfrein , chamfron; origin uncertain: see chamfer, n.] The defensive armor of the front part of the head of a war-horse. In the fifteenth century, when bards had attained their greatest develop ment, it was fitted with earpieces covering the horse's ears, and protected the whole head between the eyes and as far down as the nostrils. It was often fitted with a spike or bo between the eyes. Also chanfrin , charfron , chaffron, chamfrin, chanfron. See cuts under armor (fig. 2) and bard. Natolia affording great store of Chamolets and Grogerams; made about Angra,. before such time as the goats were destroyed by the late Rebells. Sandys , Travailes, p. 12.