carpenter's square
Example Sentences
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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
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
Then near the top edge, with the aid of a carpenter’s square, two points are marked in a line at right angles to the cut edge.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel
