mitre box

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   hand tool for guiding handsaws in making crosscuts or miter joints

   Synonymsmiter box

   Broaderhand tool

Questions about mitre box

What does mitre box mean?

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

What is another word for mitre box?

Close synonyms include miter 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 mitre box a common word?

mitre 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.