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Definition of Mitring
1. mitre [v] - See also: mitre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitring
Literary usage of Mitring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and Wood Worker's Guide by Lucius D. Gould (1879)
"mitring of Circular Mouldings. Some twenty years have elapsed since I first
published the House Carpenter's Assistant, in which rules were given for the ..."
2. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateur Bookbinders by Douglas Cockerell (1901)
"Preparing for Covering CHAPTER XII Preparing for Covering—Paring Leather—Covering-
mitring Corners—Filling-in Boards PREPARING FOR COVERING AFTER the ..."
3. Modern Carpentry and Building: Giving Methods of Obtaining the Various Cuts by William Allen Sylvester (1896)
"Plate 32 shows the mitring of straight and circular mouldings. Fig. 78 shows four
circular mouldings, mitred together so as to form ..."
4. Mortars, Plasters, Stuccos, Artificial Marble, Concretes, Portland Cements by Frederick Thomas Hodgson (1916)
"mitring.—mitring is looked upon by the generality of plasterers as a test of
speed and ability. As they generally work in pairs on other portions of the ..."
5. The Young Mechanic: Containing Directions for the Use of All Kinds of Tools by James Lukin (1872)
"Therefore I shall let you into the secret of mitring boxes and mitring boards,
which, ... 33, A, represents a mitring-board, Ba mitring- box. ..."
6. Woodworking for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs by Charles Gardner Wheeler (1907)
"See mitring and also page 92. Mitre-Box.—If you can afford it, an iron mitre-box
which will cut at ... mitring.—A common joint is the mitre (Fig. 568). ..."
7. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on Title-pages, with Numerous by Theodore Low De Vinne (1902)
"Improved mitring-machines, introduced about 1850, have led to attempts at ...
showed many extraordinary feats of skill in the mitring of flowers on brass ..."
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