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Sawyer :: Sawyer (n.) One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer..

Such :: Such (a.) Of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that I can recommend them, or, not such as I can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better..

Sawbuck :: Sawbuck (n.) A sawhorse.

Burr :: Burr (n.) A small circular saw.

Saw :: Saw (n.) An instrument for cutting or dividing substances, as wood, iron, etc., consisting of a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing..

Syb :: Sy (imp.) Saw.

Gum :: Gum (v. t.) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.

Sawbill :: Sawbill (n.) The merganser.

Terebrant :: Terebrant (a.) Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies..

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

What :: What (pron., a., & adv.) Used adverbially in a sense corresponding to the adjectival use; as, he picked what good fruit he saw..

Backsaw :: Backsaw (n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

Horntail :: Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females..

Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

Tenthredinides :: Tenthredinides (n. pl.) A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.

Slug :: Slug (n.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug..

Serrated :: Serrated (a.) Notched on the edge, like a saw..

Serrulation :: Serrulation (n.) The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw..

Offing :: Offing (n.) That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing..

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