Alexander Beazeley

A civil engineer specializing in lighthouse construction, Beazeley was, according to Murray, ‘a devoted friend of the Dictionary from its very commencement’, contributing upwards of 30,000 quotations to the OED. Beazeley also acted as consultant on terms in architecture and engineering. The quotation submitted by Beazeley on this slip was used in the Dictionary, and can be seen in the entry for rough v.(1), sense 6 b. The text on the slip reads: ‘1793 Smeaton Edystone L. §144 The two new steps * * and all the dovetails were roughed out, and some of the beds brought to a level and finished.’