(a) Printing a tool for mitring printers' rules; (b) Joinery a wooden tool similar to a mitre block, consisting of a rectangular base with two…

= template, n. 2. Also attributive.

Ceramics and Campanology. A template or shaping tool into which is cut the form of the interior or exterior outline of (part of) the object to be…

A mould or template by which to mark out curved work. (Sometimes spelt kerb.)

Joinery. A narrow length of wood used as an aid to construction, on which the dimensions of the thing being assembled are marked, usually in…

An instrument used as a gauge or guide in bringing any piece of work to the desired shape; usually a flat piece of wood or metal having one edge…

(see quot.).

General attributive, as mitring box, mitring tool, etc.

a wooden tool for use in cutting a mitred or bevelled end, consisting of a block of wood, or a base with one upright, in which there are angled…

Applied to various instruments or tools used in forming articles (see quots.).

Concrete uses. In pattern-making, a short segment of a circle used in making a ring, being shifted round on its centre several times in succession…