Masonic reference literature consistently associates a small set of working tools with Entered Apprentice: the twenty four inch gauge, the common gavel and, in some jurisdictions, the chisel, tools drawn from an operative stonemason's actual kit and given a moral reading as part of the degree's publicly documented teaching. This associative pattern, one degree's set of tools reinterpreted symbolically, repeats across all three Craft degrees and is printed in general encyclopedic treatments of Freemasonry rather than kept as privileged information.
The square and compasses, Freemasonry's best known emblem by a wide margin, belongs to the Craft system as a whole rather than to Entered Apprentice specifically, appearing on Masonic buildings, publications and regalia so consistently that it functions as public shorthand for the fraternity itself, independent of which of the three degrees a given member holds.
What separates this level of published symbolism from the degree's actual conferral is precisely the distinction Masonic bodies themselves draw: the tools' names, their operative origin and their broad moral association are freely published, while the specific words, gestures and modes of recognition transmitted during the degree itself are not, and nothing of that latter category is described here or reconstructed from outside sources.