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

The interior looked as though it were fashioned by artisans who were zealous disciples of a carpenter's square and who carried it about for insistent and perpetual use.

From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph

The instrument looked like a carpenter's square, with a quarter-circle connecting the two arms.

From Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America by Manucy, Albert