Saw

/sɔː/ · noun

Meaning

A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal..

Definitions by Sense

1. A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
2. A musical saw.
3. A sawtooth wave.
4. (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
5. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
6. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
7. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
8. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

Example Sentences

They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]

The timber saws smoothly.

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

to saw shingles

to saw out a panel

And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid[…]. And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded[…].

old saw

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Word Forms

• saws
• sawing
• sawed
• sawn

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