backsaw | (noun) a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge | Synonyms: back saw |
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bandsaw | (noun) an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels | Synonyms: band saw |
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bucksaw | (noun) a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck | - |
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chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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fretsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: jigsaw, scroll saw |
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gangsaw | (noun) a power saw that has several parallel blades making simultaneous cuts | - |
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hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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handsaw | (noun) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw |
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isaw | (noun) a street food from the Philippines, made from barbecued pig or chicken intestines | - |
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jigsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: fretsaw, scroll saw |
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(noun) a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut | Synonyms: reciprocating saw, saber saw |
pitsaw | (noun) a large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below | - |
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ripsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: splitsaw |
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saw | (noun) hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting | - |
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(noun) a power tool for cutting wood | Synonyms: power saw, sawing machine |
(noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, proverb |
sawbill | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, merganser, sheldrake |
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sawbones | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, surgeon |
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sawbuck | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawhorse |
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sawdust | (noun) fine particles of wood made by sawing wood | - |
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sawfish | (noun) primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout | - |
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sawfly | (noun) insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant | - |
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sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
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sawm | (noun) the third pillar of Islam is fasting (primarily during the month of Ramadan); Muslims abstain from food and drink and gambling and all sensuous pleasures from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan | - |
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sawmill | (noun) a mill for dressing logs and lumber | Synonyms: lumbermill |
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(noun) a large sawing machine | - |
sawpit | (noun) a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw | - |
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sawtooth | (noun) a serration on a saw blade | - |
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sawwort | (noun) European perennial whose serrate leaves yield a yellow dye | Synonyms: Serratula tinctoria |
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sawyer | (noun) any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers | Synonyms: sawyer beetle |
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(noun) one who is employed to saw wood | - |
seesaw | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board |
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splitsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: ripsaw |
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whipsaw | (noun) a saw with handles at both ends; intended for use by two people | Synonyms: lumberman's saw, two-handed saw, two-man saw |
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