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Saw

/sɔː/

A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal

📖 Definitions of "Saw"

noun
  1. 1

    A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal

  2. 2

    A musical saw.

  3. 3

    A sawtooth wave.

verb
  1. 1

    To cut (something) with a saw.

    "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;"

  2. 2

    To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

    "The fiddler sawed away at his instrument."

  3. 3

    To be cut with a saw.

    "The timber saws smoothly."

  4. 4

    To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

    "to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)"

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