mitre box
an open-ended box with sides having narrow slots to guide a saw in cutting mitre joints
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How to use mitre box in a sentence
Provide yourself with a good saw, a hammer, a square, and a mitre-box.
Amateur Gardencraft | Eben E. RexfordThe camber facilitates cutting to the bottom in mitre-box work without sawing into the bed piece of the box.
Farm Mechanics | Herbert A. ShearerHand sawing is generally not exact enough to produce angles of sufficient accuracy even when an ordinary mitre box is used.
The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration | Charles Franklin WarnerFig. 182 shows the shapes possible on a 45-degree mitre box.
Carpentry and Woodwork | Edwin W. FosterAn iron mitre-box is useful but rather expensive, and you can get along with the wooden one described further on.
Woodworking for Beginners | Charles Gardner Wheeler
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