Saw
[sɔː] or [sɔ]
Definition
(noun.) hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting.
(verb.) cut with a saw; 'saw wood for the fireplace'.
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Definition
(-) imp. of See.
(v. t.) Something said; speech; discourse.
(v. t.) A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
(v. t.) Dictate; command; decree.
(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.
(v. t.) To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
(v. t.) To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.
(v. t.) Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
(v. i.) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
(v. i.) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.
(v. i.) To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.
(imp.) of See
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Saying, maxim, adage, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, dictum, by-word, sententious precept.
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Definition
n. (Scot.) salve.
n. a saying: a proverb: a degree: a joke.
n. an instrument for cutting formed of a blade band or disc of thin steel with a toothed edge.—v.t. to cut with a saw.—v.i. to use a saw: to be cut with a saw:—pa.t. sawed; pa.p. sawed or sawn.—ns. Saw′-back the larva of an American bombycid moth; Saw′-bones a slang name for a surgeon; Saw′dust dust or small pieces of wood &c. made in sawing; Saw′er; Saw′-file a three-cornered file used for sharpening the teeth of saws; Saw′-fish a genus of cartilaginous fishes distinguished by the prolongation of the snout into a formidable weapon bordered on each side by sharp teeth; Saw′-fly the common name of a number of hymenopterous insects injurious to plants; Saw′-frame the frame in which a saw is set; Saw′-grass a marsh plant of the southern states of the American Union with long slender leaves; Saw′-horn any insect with serrate antenn? Saw′mill a mill for sawing timber; Saw′pit a pit where wood is sawed; Saw′-set an instrument for turning the teeth of saws alternately right and left; Saw′-sharp′ener the greater titmouse; Saw′-tā′ble the platform of a sawing-machine; Saw′-tem′pering the process by which the requisite hardness and elasticity are given to a saw.—adj. Saw′-toothed having teeth like those of a saw: (bot.) having tooth-like notches as a leaf.—ns. Saw′-whet the Acadian owl; Saw′-whet′ter the marsh titmouse; Saw′yer one who saws timber: a stranded tree in a river in America: any wood-boring larva: the bowfin fish.
pa.t. of see.
Editor: Pasquale
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you use a hand-saw, indicates an energetic and busy time, and cheerful home life. To see big saws in machinery, foretells that you will superintend a big enterprise, and the same will yield fair returns. For a woman, this dream denotes that she will be esteemed, and her counsels will be heeded. To dream of rusty or broken saws, denotes failure and accidents. To lose a saw, you will engage in affairs which will culminate in disaster. To hear the buzz of a saw, indicates thrift and prosperity. To find a rusty saw, denotes that you will probably restore your fortune. To carry a saw on your back, foretells that you will carry large, but profitable, responsibilities.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A trite popular saying or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
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Examples
- The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He could not tell me that; he saw me, and over my shoulder he saw the man. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- His wife saw the one part at least of the bouquet-scene. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I saw them stop near the church and speak to the sexton's wife, who had come from the cottage, and had waited, watching us from a distance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Tom, love, I am telling Mr. Harthouse that he never saw you abroad. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- 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.
- Means for quarter sawing in both directions of log travel are shown in patent to Gray, No. 550,825, December 3, 1895. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Payne put a wire in the binding-post of the battery, the motor started, and an assistant began sawing a heavy oak log. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pliny refers to the curled chips raised by the plane, and Ansonius refers to mills driven by the waters of the Moselle for sawing marble into slabs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Clarke on the question of see-sawing, or hunting, as it was afterward termed: In the Holborn Viaduct station the difficulty of 'hunting' was not experienced. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Accounts of Pliny and Ansonius as to Planes and Marble Sawing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Fig. 243 illustrates the method of sawing to produce this effect. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A bolt made two shingles; it was sawn asunder by hand, then split and shaved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The rough stock-strips for the alley bed, leveling strips, return chute, post and kick-backs are sawed out of certain of the logs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The cue is then sawed across into halves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The process is as follows: The tusk is sawed into blocks about 2-3/4 inches in size. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Flat window glass can readily be sawed by a watch-spring saw by aid of this solution. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A pulley and belt, connected to a circular saw larger than the motor, permitted large logs of oak timber to be sawed with ease with the use of two small cells of battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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