band-saw

Dad has sold it on to a timber yard on Tyneside, where it powers a band-saw as big as a house.

Down Rover! Peter Ashley 2008

Nowadays the preliminary work is done by an electrically-driven coal-cutter, which in principle is an immensely tough and powerful band-saw, running horizontally instead of vertically, with teeth a couple of inches long and half an inch or an inch thick.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

Maybe one man would bring in the lumber, and another would cut it up in the cutoff saw, and then a couple would rip it up and band-saw it and run [unknown] it out and then finally to the tenon machine, the triple saws, the boring machine, dowels.

Oral History Interview with Flake and Nellie Meyers, August 11, 1979. Interview H-0133. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1979

Then he goes away, an 'Jud is as down in the mouth as if he'd run his fist ag'in' a band-saw.

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

Any of these may be dressed down to thinner boards, or resawn on a special band-saw.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

The band-saw is claimed as a French invention, and the crowds around the workman who saws a roomful of dolls 'furniture out of

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

In this the entire mechanism carrying the wheels on which the band-saw revolves can be moved up and down, so as to bring the point where the saw leaves the upper wheel as close to the top of the different sized logs as possible.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

Whatever may be true of hand-saws, in machine-saws the tension method, as illustrated by the gang-saw and the band-saw, is steadily displacing the compression method utilized in the circular-saw.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

The band-saw is fast displacing the other two, wherever it can be used.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

Nowadays the preliminary work is done by an electrically-driven coal-cutter, which in principle is an immensely tough and powerful band-saw, running horizontally instead of vertically, with teeth a couple of inches long and half an inch or an inch thick.

The Road to Wigan Pier 1937