A cavalier of elegant carriage, spurred and plumed; mounted on a superb steed, of jet-black colour-his counter clouted with flakes of snow-white froth loosened from his Chamfering lips.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
This causes the tooth to wear, but the teeth may be caused to each take a proportion of the cut by Chamfering them as at B in the figure, which will relieve the front tooth of a great part of its duty and let the following teeth perform duty, and thus preserve the sharpness of the cutting edges.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose
1857, Chamfering off not more than three threads, and the chamfered teeth must then be filed, just bringing the front edges up to a cutting edge, but filing nothing off them, the reamed chamfer acting as a guide to file them by.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose