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

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

Something that looks just like a carpenter’s square.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

In ecclesiastical art, St. Thomas is represented as handling our Lord's wounds; or in reference to his martyrdom, with a lance or spear; also, holding a carpenter's square.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James

Taking a carpenter's square as here shown, if the vertex touches the curve at every point as the square slides around, it is a true semicircle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene