Definition of saw

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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..

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Bascule :: Bascule (n.) In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls..
Proverb :: Proverb (n.) An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage..
Saw :: Saw (imp.) of Se.
Serrature :: Serrature (n.) A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything..
Behn :: Behn (n.) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury..
Saw :: Saw (v. t.) To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble..
Muley :: Muley (n.) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate..
Sawer :: Sawer (n.) One who saws; a sawyer.
Terebrantia :: Terebrantia (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
Sawdust :: Sawdust (n.) Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw..
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.
Saw-wort :: Saw-wort (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.
Serrifera :: Serrifera (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.
Pitman :: Pitman (n.) The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a connecting rod in other machinery..
Sentence :: Sentence (n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw..
Hymenoptera :: Hymenoptera (n. pl.) An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc..
Scobiform :: Scobiform (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings..
Last :: Last (a.) At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York..
Sawder :: Sawder (n.) A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.
Seesaw :: Seesaw (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward..
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