miter box

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   hand tool for guiding handsaws in making crosscuts or miter joints

   Synonymsmitre box

   Broaderhand tool

Questions about miter box

What does miter box mean?

miter box means "hand tool for guiding handsaws in making crosscuts or miter joints".

What is another word for miter box?

Close synonyms include mitre box. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is miter box a common word?

miter box is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.