mitring

They made the bed together, Nurse Rainer flicking the sheets into place and neatly mitring each corner with such brisk expertise that Dalgliesh, a second or two behind her, felt himself slow and incompetent.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Use hand saws and low speed reciprocating saws for mitring and cutting of corrugated sheets.

Chapter 10 1996

When this is dry put a slip of 0.5 in. or 0.75 in. gilt moulding (procured at the picture frame maker's) all around the front of the case on top of the prepared glass, and just within the edges of the wood "ploughed" out to receive it, nicely mitring the comers with a mitre and shooting block.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

Suppose a piece of moulding to require mitring; it has only to be laid as shown against the guide bar (B), and sawn off on the line (CC), or laid on the other side against the second guide bar, and similarly cut off.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

Tuck in all at once the foot and lower corners, mitring the corners as you did those of the lower sheet.

Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

The mitring line should not come from the extreme corner, but rather farther down, and there it is well to leave a certain amount of overlap in the joint, for which purpose the edge of the turn-in leather and the edge of the leather joint should be pared thin.

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

This is a project that most people could easily tackle (even those with limited DIY skills) as mitring ability or quality timbers are utterly irrelevant!

Thestar.com - Home Page 2009

I. long reach from the ridge into the guttur, and another course over these; breaking joints, and mitring at top, are more secure than plank. the shingles are of equal thickness at both ends, and in laying on the terras, a broad plank is first nailed over the mitre to prevent water from ever entring that, & the intervals then covered with other planks. sheet iron unquestionably endangers leaking, and will rust out sooner than the guttur, well pitched will rot. let all the dormitories be thus done, & without sheet iron.

Letters to and from Jefferson, 1819 [a machine-readable transcription] 1819