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

Then take a carpenter's square, or even a large book, and walk along AB until you reach P, a point from which you can just see X and B along two sides of the square.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

The hands, girdle, most of her dress, and her black carpenter's square are original.

From Mornings in Florence by Ruskin, John