| 单词 | mitre joint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmitre joint mitre joint n. see sense 1. mitre joint 1. A usually right-angled joint in wood or other material in which the angle made by the joined pieces is bisected by the line or plane of junction; more fully mitre joint. Also: the shaped end or edge of a piece of wood, etc., intended to form one side of such a joint; the angle (usually of 45 degrees) into which such an end or edge is shaped. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint indenting1382 scarf1497 swallowtail1548 dovetail1565 mortise-piece1577 tenon and mortise1610 culver-tail1616 mortise and tenon1631 finger joint1657 breaking joint1663 meeting1663 mitre1665 scarfing1671 heading joint1773 dovetail-joint1776 butting joint1803 bevel-joint1823 lap-joint1823 lapped mitre1825 mitre dovetail1847 bridle joint1860 mortise1875 sypher-joint1875 keyed mitre1876 tongue-and-groove1882 saddle joint1948 1665 R. Pratt Note-bk. in R. T. Gunther Archit. Sir Roger Pratt (1928) viii. 114 Skirting boards 2/6 per yard. For window shutters mitre up and down, and setting on the ironwork 6/- per yard. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 60 By Miters are meant the joyning of two pieces of wood, so as the Joynt makes half a Square. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 367/2 [A plane] for the fitting and framing of Miter and Bevil Joynts. 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Mitre, in Architecture, is the Workmen's Term for an Angle that is just 45 degrees, or half a right one; and if it be a quarter of a Right Angle, they call it a Half Mitre. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse 196 The mitre joint of two contiguous bars. 1840 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 3) I. 134 Mitre,..the line of meeting of mouldings or other surfaces, which intersect or intercept each other at an angle. 1880 Coach Builders' Art Jrnl. 1 71 I drive all home, and cut the mitres and joints on the body single-handed, thus making a better job by single saw cut than can be obtained by solid mitre made at bench. 1882 J. Lukin Picture Frame Making 2 These [mouldings] need only be sawn to a mitre or angle of 45 deg. 1902 A. Morrison Hole in Wall 337 Now a lock of that sort joins in an angle or mitre at the middle, where the two sides meet like a valve, pointing to resist the tide. 1979 C. Ford Making Mus. Instruments i. 22 This overlap is now bevelled with a sharp chisel to form part of the mitre joint of the ribs at the corners. 1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) iii. 171/1 When you are cutting mitres for outside corners, the coving must be longer than the wall. < as lemmas |
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