Saws

Examples

• The preceding saws were of the straight, reciprocating kind. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The raw cotton was put in a hopper, where it was met by the teeth of the saws, and torn from the seeds. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The first development was along the lines of this form of saw, and to increase its efficiency the saws were arranged in gangs, so as to make a number of cuts at one pass of the log. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A child sees persons with whom he lives using chairs, hats, tables, spades, saws, plows, horses, money in certain ways. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Now gangs of such saws may be found in America and elsewhere, and circular saws have also been added. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I feel the rack pass over my body like the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Brunel, in 1805-1808, devised a set of circular saws run by a steam engine, which cut sheets of rosewood and mahogany, one-fourteenth of an inch thick, with great speed and accuracy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The equipment of this shop consists of large saws, planers, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One cylinder had a number of small circular saws that were fitted into grooves cut into the cylinder. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Saws that both cut, form, and _plane_ the boards at the same time are now known. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Ecod, he saws away at Mozart and Handel and the rest of the big-wigs like a thorough workman. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The seeds were too large to go between the bars through which the series of saws protruded, and were kept apart by themselves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The trunks were hauled to the mills and sawed into planks of suitable thickness by gang-saws. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Another difficulty was the lack of proper tools; but he worked at these until his box was supplied with a stock of knives, saws, chisels, and gravers of many different patterns. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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