saw

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It should always be remembered that a saw is an edge tool, and its edges are as liable to injury as any edges.

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  1. noun Any of various tools, either hand-operated or power-driven, having a thin metal blade or disk with a sharp, usually toothed edge, used for cutting wood, metal, or other hard materials.
  2. transitive verb To cut or divide with a saw.
  3. transitive verb To produce or shape with a saw: sawed a hole in the board.
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  • But all Joana saw was the rifle on the ground below her. —  Mary Balogh - Beyond the Sunrise
  • All that Venera saw was a thousand ancient cultures ending in one stroke of burgeoning sunlight A trembling shockwave raced around the curve of the world. —  AnalogSFF,June2007
  • The last thing Donna saw was the bottle being swung at her head. —  EQMM,July2008
  • The most conspicuous sign of human habitation Serena saw was the occasional slip of colored plastic ribbon tied to a branch to mark the location of a crawfish trap Lucky pulled up beside one of these—a red ribbon tied to the branch of a willow sapling—and set about emptying the dip net set in the shallow water beneath it. —  TAMI HOAG
  • What this mother saw was an unexplainable illness consuming her son. —  portland indymedia - features
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chisel ·  shovel ·  lathe ·  tongs ·  winch ·  hammer ·  cutter ·  hatchet ·  screwdriver ·  scissor ·  pliers ·  machete

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saw:   sawing ·  saws ·  seeing ·  seen ·  see ·  sees
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  1. Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu; see sek- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, speech; see sekw-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English sawe, saghe, saʒe, from Anglo-Saxon saga = Middle Dutch saghe, saeghe, Dutch zaag = Middle Low German sage = Old High German saga, sega, Middle High German sage, sege, German säge = Icelandic sög = Swedish såg = Danish sav, saug, a saw; literally ‘a cutter’ (cf. Old High German seh, Middle High German sech, seche, German sech, a plowshare, Anglo-Saxon sigthe, sīthe, English sithe, misspelled scythe, literally ‘a cutter’), from ✓ sag, cut, = Latin secare, cut (whence ult. English sickle): see secant, section.
  2. from Middle English sawen, saghen, saʒen, from Anglo-Saxon *sagian = Dutch zagen = Middle Low German sagen, Old High German sagōn, segōn, Middle High German sagen, segen, German sägen = Icelandic saga = Swedish såga = Danish save, saw; from the noun.
  3. from Middle English sawe, saʒe, sage, sahe, from Anglo-Saxon sagu, saying, statement, report, tale, prophecy, saw (= Middle Low German sage = Old High German saga, Middle High German G. sage, a tale, = Icelandic saga = Swedish Danish saga, a tale, story, legend, tradition, history, saga); from secgan (✓ sag), say: see say. Cf. saga.
 

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