saw-backed

In fact he'd prefer to ride one of the saw-backed baggage mules.

Lord of the Isles 1997

It was a hunting knife, with a narrowed point and a heavy saw-backed blade about two spans long.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

He could see Frederickson's men dragging thorn bushes from the slope facing the village, some men hacking at trunks with saw-backed bayonets, others pulling at the thorns so that a wide path was being cleared up the hillside.

Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984

The man who had Harper flogged earlier this same year, who had tried to rape Teresa, Sharpe's wife, who had held a saw-backed bayonet at the throat of Sharpe's baby daughter, Antonia.

Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984

Those who had the wicked saw-backed bayonets attacked cork-oak branches, others gathered kindling, and within minutes the blue wood-smoke rose like a wavering signal in the evening sky.

Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

Sharpe was holding a gleaming, saw-backed bayonet at her head and if she stumbled he pulled at the sling round her throat.

Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

He pointed to some heavy-looking masses of vapor hanging above a dim range of saw-backed mountains off to the east.

The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Richard Bonner

Far beyond the long gradual lower slope lifted a range of saw-backed mountains, the sanctuary of wild goat and bear, and across the rolling lake lifted other mountains sheer from the water's edge, peaks rising above timber-line in majestic contour, their pinnacle crests grazing the clouds that scudded before the south wind.

Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

I turned away from the bank and raced up a long slope to a saw-backed ridge that promised largely of unobstructed view.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926