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

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)

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