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Definition of Mitre box
1. Noun. Hand tool for guiding handsaws in making crosscuts or miter joints.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitre Box
Literary usage of Mitre box
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanic's Companion: Or, The Elements and Practice of Carpentry by Peter Nicholson (1831)
"The mitre box Is used for cutting a piece of tried-up stuff at an angle of ...
The mitre box consists of three boards, two called, the sides being fixed at ..."
2. The New Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and Wood Worker's Guide by Lucius D. Gould (1879)
"Exhibits rules for finding the lines to cut a mitre-box for sprung mouldings ;
also the plans and elevations for octagonal and hexagonal roofs, ..."
3. Practical Carpentry: Being a Guide to the Correct Working and Laying Out of by Frederick Thomas Hodgson (1883)
"Undoubtedly the best way to make good work of these mouldings is to use a mitre-box.
To do this make the down cuts B, B (Fig. no) the same pitch as the ..."
4. Spons' Mechanics' Own Book: A Manual for Handicraftsmen and Amateurs by Spon (1901)
"The ordinary mitre-box may also be made in ... All the forms of mitre-box described
above are intended for use with a saw, the edges of the mitre being left ..."
5. Wood-working Tools: How to Use Them. A Manual by Industrial School Association, Boston (1881)
"Without lining out the work, place each piece, in turn, in the mitre-box, in such
a position ... If the diagonal kerf of the mitre-box is accurately placed, ..."
6. Modern Carpentry and Building: Giving Methods of Obtaining the Various Cuts by William Allen Sylvester (1896)
"Set a bevel to the angle found, and mark the angle on the top of the mitre-box,
as shown in Plate 36, Fig. 90, ab, representing the angle : then draw a line ..."
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