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sawing

Variant of saw

noun

    1. a cutting tool, of various shapes and sizes and worked by hand or machinery, consisting essentially of a thin blade or disk of metal, usually steel, the edge of which is a series of sharp teeth
    2. any of various tools or devices somewhat like this but with a sharp edge instead of teeth
  1. a machine for operating a saw or saws

transitive verb sawed, sawed or Chiefly Brit.sawn, sawing

  1. to cut or divide with a saw
  2. to shape or form with a saw
  3. to make sawlike cutting motions through (the air, etc.)
  4. to operate or produce with a to-and-fro motion suggestive of that used in working a saw: to saw a knife through meat, to saw a tune on a fiddle

intransitive verb

  1. to cut with or as with a saw or as a saw does
  2. to be cut with a saw: wood that saws easily
  3. to make sawlike cutting motions

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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