mitered

[ mahy-terd ]

adjective

1. shaped like a bishop's miter or having a miter-shaped apex.
2. wearing, or entitled or privileged to wear, a miter.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mitered¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; miter, -ed ³

Example Sentences

The four sides are mitered together at their edges and reinforced by covering the joint with copper.

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The door frame is mitered at the corners and rabbeted on the inner edge to take the panel.

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Then these were molded and mitered at the corners, and later a cap of heavier moldings was put across the top.

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The picture-frame-vise, Fig. 172, is a very convenient tool for making mitered joints, as in picture-frames.

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The edges of the boards are also mitered right thru for a short distance so that when finished the dovetails are invisible.

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