Also 7 basil. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To grind (a tool) down to an edge; to cut to a sloping edge, to bevel.
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 185. The Chissels … are Basil’d away on both the flat sides.
1715. Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 122. Instead of rabbiting the Frame and Trap-Door, let both be bezell’d or sloap’d.
