Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In carpentry, an immovable bevel for striking upon a piece of stuff an angle of 45.

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  • The _miter-square_, Fig. 201, is a try-square fixed at an angle of

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

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