Crossword clues for miter
miter
- Carpentry joint
- Bishop's hat
- Bishop topper
- Papal headdress
- Joint type
- Angled joint
- Joint at the corner
- Cut at a 45-degree angle
- Bishop's headgear
- Wood joint
- Top hat in the church
- Kind of carpentry joint
- Hat on a chess piece
- Carpenter's box
- Bishop's cap
- Abbot's headdress
- Priestly hat
- Picture-frame feature
- Kind of box for a carpenter
- Headdress for a bishop
- Corner cut, in carpentry
- Bishop's head wear
- Abbot's hat
- ___ box (carpentry device)
- Kind of joint, in carpentry
- High hat
- Cut corners?
- Papal hat
- Kind of box or joint
- Oblique surface in carpentry
- Join, in woodworking
- Top of the Catholic Church?
- Bishop's topper
- Corner joint
- Kind of saw in a workshop
- A liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions
- Bishop's headdress
- Tall cap
- Carpenter's ___ box
- Carpenter's joint
- Pope's hat
- Type of box
- Liturgical headdress
- Bishopric
- Clergyman's tall cap
- Clerical headdress
- Clerical headwear
- Carpenter's device
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miter \Mi"ter\, Mitre \Mi"tre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Miteredor Mitred; p. pr. & vb. n. Miteringor Mitring.]
To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter. [WordNet sense 2] ``Mitered locks.''
--Milton.To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to fit together in a miter joint. [WordNet sense 3]
To bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle. [WordNet sense 1]
Miter \Mi"ter\, Mitre \Mi"tre\, n. [F. mitre, fr. L. mitra headband, turban, Gr. ?.]
A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by bishops and other church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.
--Fairholt.The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
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(Numis.) A sort of base money or coin.
Miter box (Carp. & Print.), an apparatus for guiding a handsaw at the proper angle in making a miter joint; esp., a wooden or metal trough with vertical kerfs in its upright sides, for guides.
Miter dovetail (Carp.), a kind of dovetail for a miter joint in which there is only one joint line visible, and that at the angle.
Miter gauge (Carp.), a gauge for determining the angle of a miter.
Miter joint, a joint formed by pieces matched and united upon a line bisecting the angle of junction, as by the beveled ends of two pieces of molding or brass rule, etc. The term is used especially when the pieces form a right angle, such as the edges of a window frame, and the edge of each piece at the point of junction is cut at a 45[deg] angle to its long direction. See Miter, 2.
Miter shell (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of marine univalve shells of the genus Mitra.
Miter square (Carp.), a bevel with an immovable arm at an angle of 45[deg], for striking lines on stuff to be mitered; also, a square with an arm adjustable to any angle.
Miter wheels, a pair of bevel gears, of equal diameter, adapted for working together, usually with their axes at right angles.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in the carpentry sense of "joint at a 45 degree angle," 1670s, perhaps from mitre, via notion of joining of the two peaks of the folded cap. As a verb from 1731.
alternative spelling of mitre (see -re).
Wiktionary
alt. to finish a material at an angle, frequently 45 degrees, or sometimes with some specific shape, so that it will fit up tightly against another piece of material, as with a picture frame. n. (alternative spelling of mitre English) vb. to finish a material at an angle, frequently 45 degrees, or sometimes with some specific shape, so that it will fit up tightly against another piece of material, as with a picture frame.
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 before making the joint" [syn: mitre]
a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions [syn: mitre]
v. bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint
confer a miter on (a bishop)
fit together in a miter joint
Wikipedia
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.