mitre box

noun

1. an open-ended box with sides having narrow slots to guide a saw in cutting mitre joints

Example Sentences

Provide yourself with a good saw, a hammer, a square, and a mitre-box.

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The camber facilitates cutting to the bottom in mitre-box work without sawing into the bed piece of the box.

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Hand sawing is generally not exact enough to produce angles of sufficient accuracy even when an ordinary mitre box is used.

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Fig. 182 shows the shapes possible on a 45-degree mitre box.

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An iron mitre-box is useful but rather expensive, and you can get along with the wooden one described further on.

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