Dictionary entry

Bevel (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bev″el, a. 1. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

2. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.

I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.

Shak.

A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90°. — Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis. Knight.