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Handsaw :: Handsaw (n.) A saw used with one hand.

Sawbill :: Sawbill (n.) The merganser.

Oscillancy :: Oscillancy (n.) The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion.

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

Teeter :: Teeter (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter..

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

Jacksaw :: Jacksaw (n.) The merganser.

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.

Seesaw :: Seesaw (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward..

Set :: Set (n.) The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade..

Crown-saw :: Crown-saw (n.) A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion..

Flitch :: Flitch (n.) The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab.

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

Caterpillar :: Caterpillar (n.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutw

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

Pitman :: Pitman (n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc..

Asyndeton :: Asyndeton (n.) A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton..

Jack :: Jack (n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck.

Dynamite :: Dynamite (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition..

Sawder :: Sawder (n.) A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.

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