mitre box
noun
an open-ended box with sides having narrow slots to guide a saw in cutting mitre joints
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Historical Examples of mitre box
Provide yourself with a good saw, a hammer, a square, and a mitre-box.
Amateur GardencraftEben E. Rexford
Use a mitre-box similar to the one described in Chapter I in cutting the wooden furniture.
The Boy CraftsmanA. Neely Hall
A Mitre-box for cutting mitres in large work, and this may be made as shown in Fig. 12.
The Boy CraftsmanA. Neely Hall
The camber facilitates cutting to the bottom in mitre-box work without sawing into the bed piece of the box.
Farm MechanicsHerbert A. Shearer