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Clergyman's tall cap
Answer for the clue "Clergyman's tall cap ", 5 letters:
miter
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Word definitions for miter in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner [syn: miter joint , mitre joint , mitre ] the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made; "he covered the miter with glue ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miter \Mi"ter\, Mitre \Mi"tre\, v. i. To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.
Usage examples of miter.
They winced when High Magus Adad slapped Marduk smartly across the face before setting the mitered crown on his head.
He rose early and was clothed in his archepiscopal miter and the pallium which his friend John of Salisbury had fetched for him from the Pope.
Florid carvings in stone covered expansive panels under the complex bands of dentil moldings that ran in mitered bands over the tops of the capitals.
To the left, Archbishop Hubert lent the weight of his presence and approval to this gathering, coped and mitered as he observed from a thronelike chair.
Some children were playing hide-and-seek near the iron grating, popping out from behind the cagelike structure, which enclosed a statue of someone in a bishop's miter, to throw pieces of wood at his Buick.
He had the expected table, power miter, radial-arm and band saws, a thickness planer, wood lathe, workbench and shop vacuum.
The drywall joint was marred by an unnaturally straight hairline crack that extended all the way from the mitered junction of the three-inch-high base molding to the ceiling.
Then came several biscops and presbyters whose cities and names Ivar couldn't keep straight, followed at the end by an elderly presbyter named Hatto who had not minded praying beside Ivar at the service of Lauds three days ago and, finally, by young Biscop Odila of Mainni, who had only recently taken up miter and crosier.
Cam had taught him how to make the frames on an old miter box at the boatyard.
Just as a carpenter had a miter box and a dovetail jig and a clawhammer in his box.
He possessed hammers and screwdrivers, wrenches and pliers, saws and a miter box, a battery-powered drill with an array of bits, screws and nails, rope and wire, brackets of all kinds, and everything else a handyman might need, all of it purchased at Sears when he had realized that properly arranging and displaying each piece in his collection would require the construction of some clever supports and, in a couple of cases, thematic backdrops.
Evidently satisfied, he shouted an order and jerked a hand toward the miter gate,The prisoners' crew was accompanied by six armed soldiers, who fell in before and behind, muskets held in marching order, their smart appearance a marked contrast to the ragged Highlanders.
Gold brocade ornamented Dyfrig’s vestments and the high, mitered hat that made him appear taller and more slender than I knew he must be.
I stood in the shadow of the prickly greenish-black mass of a mitered bishop and felt safe from being sighted at the house.
But the weapon was massive, he had to admit, with a boxcar-sized barrel that had a kind of mitered muzzle.