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saw

/sɔː/
Dictionary

noun

  • A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
  • A musical saw.
  • A sawtooth wave.

verb

  • 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;"

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

    "The fiddler sawed away at his instrument."

  • To be cut with a saw.

    "The timber saws smoothly."

  • 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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