Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having an end formed with a square cross-section.
- Having the end-plane at 90° or at a right angle to the axis.
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Examples
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Hear your canvas tearing, and see the black, square-ended timbers thrusting holes through it.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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To me it looks like she was on a diving board or sidewalk- or any other square-ended surface.
The World's Most Cheerful Hanging Jen 2008
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“If the chancel were square-ended, you would have an enormous flat wall,” Sally persisted.
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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Type (b): a spade with a square-ended blade suitable for cutting through fibrous materials and skimming weed growth (e.g. top soil growth and grass);
Chapter 5 1987
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This should be square-ended, about one inch wide, and three or four inches long, and will do successful work of a certain class, but not of the best.
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A motley little fleet awaited the party at the water's edge, -- square-ended, flat-bottomed punts, sharp-bowed bateaux, long, graceful, dug-out canoes, and a commodious push-boat, with cabin and awning, whose motive power was poles.
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The net for this should be made of strong wire in the shape of the net at Fig. 46, or 43, if without the joints, a bag of strong dowlas and a stick are attached, and the front square-ended part is pushed by the collector through the grass, in order to trap any low feeding or invisible insects.
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On the opposite side of the same part of the transept a square-ended chapel with a vestry attached was added in place of the original shallow apsidal chapel.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette
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Elbows, globe valves and a square-ended entrance to pipes all offer resistance to the passage of steam.
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A paint punt is a small, flat, square-ended raft with raised sides, used for floating around a ship's water line to renew the boot-topping paint.
Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle
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