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whipsaw
noun
any of several long-bladed saws; esp., a crosscut saw with a tapering blade, from 5 to 7 feet long and with a handle at each end, used usually by two persons
transitive verb
- to cut with a whipsaw
- to defeat or get the best of (a person) two ways at once, as, in faro, by winning two different bets in a single play
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