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square set

noun

, Mining.
  1. a set having 12 timbers joined to form eight 90° solid angles.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of square set1

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25
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Example Sentences

He couldn't make out his face at first but he knew him by that square-set hat.

They rose on all sides around the lake, looking like ships with furled sails and yards square-set.

He came back with a square set to his jaw and a hard glint in his olive eyes which gleamed like steel behind velvet.

The square-set shoulders drooped wearily, and in the eyes was the tired, dumb look of a beaten man.

Again the same square-set figure in the plain, soft, wide hat is riding ahead.

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