A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 358
to each other. Carpenters Square. A steel iraiilenientforuiing a right angle with a shorter and a SQUARE HEADED sense (, having a long liladc attached at abouttill centre of a shorter crosspicce. In u.se, thelatter is moved along tile edge of a drawingboard, lioldiiig the long blaile in successive… … Spur: E.vnr.isH (tOThic : 1:!th Ckntury; Stock-BUKV, Kknt. of work or material are right angles; or toascertain the amount of their deviation fromright angles. SQUARE END, The end of a piece oftimber when cut off square, in contradistinctionto an end prepared for framing with a tenon orotherwise.
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