carpenter's level

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   a straight bar of light metal with a spirit level in it

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Questions about carpenter's level

What does carpenter's level mean?

carpenter's level means "a straight bar of light metal with a spirit level in it".

Is carpenter's level a common word?

carpenter's level is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.