Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHAM'FER
CHAM'FER, or CHAM'FRETCHAM'FER-ED
CHAM'FER, v.t. [Corrupted from Fr. echancrer, to hollow, to cut sloping; Arm. chancra; said to be from cancer.]
- To channel; to cut a furrow, as in a column, or to cut into a sloping form. – Johnson. Bailey. Encyc.
- To wrinkle. – Shak.
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