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miter box

miter box is the alternative spelling of mitre box.

Meaning of mitre box

Noun

mitre box (plural mitre boxes)

  1. A wood working appliance used to guide a handsaw or backsaw for making precise cuts, usually 45° and 90° mitre cuts. The mitre boxes are made of wood or plastic.

Forms of miter box

pluralmiter boxes

Questions about miter box

What is miter box the alternative spelling of?
Miter box is the alternative spelling of mitre box.

Words near miter box in the dictionary

  1. mite cheese
  2. Miteipur
  3. Mitempfindung
  4. miteproof
  5. miter
  6. miter box
  7. miter boxes
  8. miter joint
  9. miter joints
  10. miter line
  11. miter lines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miter box (page history and authors); mitre box (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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