A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 353
nilicularly to each otiier. Carpenters Square. A steel implementforming a right angle with a shorter and a SQUARE-HEADED sense C, having a long blade attached at aboutthe centre of a shorter crosspiece. In use, thelatter i.s moved along the edge of a drawingboanl, liiilding the long blade in… … Spur: English Gothic ; 1.3th Oenturv ;BuJlY, Kent. Stock- of work or material are right angles; or toascertain the amount of their deviation fromright angles. SQUARE END. The end of a [jiece oftimber when cut off scjuare, in contradistinctionto an end prepared for framing with a tenon orotherwise.
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