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Miter   /mˈaɪtər/   Listen
Miter

verb
(past & past part. mitered or mitred; pres. part. mitering or mitring)
1.
Bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint.
2.
Confer a miter on (a bishop).
3.
Fit together in a miter joint.



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"Miter" Quotes from Famous Books



... from Bordeaux, was hastening northward to join the army. As far as Bergerac they were in a friendly land, but thence onward they rode over a blackened landscape with many a roofless house, its two bare gable-ends sticking upward—a "Knolles' miter" as it was afterward called when Sir Robert worked his stern will upon the country. For three days they rode northward, seeing many small parties of French in all directions, but too eager to reach the army to ease their march in ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle


Words linked to "Miter" :   confer, miter box, mitral, join, headdress, mitre joint, headgear, bring together, joint, bestow, chamfer, surface, miter joint, miter mushroom, bevel


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