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

At the point of the shears is an awl for boring holes; and, most practical of all, the scissors when they are opened out form a perfect carpenter's square.

From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 20, March 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

This may be done by sighting with an ordinary carpenter's square set upon three posts.

From The Pecan and its Culture by Hume, H. Harold (Hardrada Harold)