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mitre box

noun

  1. an open-ended box with sides having narrow slots to guide a saw in cutting mitre joints
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I've stumbled on the mitre box; I shall certainly be a bishop.'

There," cried Townsend, as he chanced to stumble over the carpenter's mitre box, which stood in the way, "there's a good omen for me.

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