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 |
(verb) cut with a saw | - |
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 | - |