carpenter's square

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In rough order, I spent a week staining and lacquering the cabinet, learning how to solder, measuring off angles with a carpenter’s square and redoing a few steps I got wrong the first time around.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2013

Something that looks just like a carpenter’s square.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

She’s wrapped tightly in a white bed-sheet and has a carpenter’s square on her head.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

A good application of this proposition is the one concerning a method of drawing parallel lines by the use of a carpenter's square.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The young man had taken off his blue apron, and held it rolled up in his left hand, while his right grasped the carpenter's square, exactly as the soldiers held their halberds.

From The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War by Anonymous