Sawing
['sɔ:iŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Saw
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Examples
- 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.
- And went on sawing his wood. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- As one invention necessitates and begets others, so special forms of machines for sawing and working up wood into pegs were devised. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was Birkin sawing and hammering away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At the thicker end, a sawing-out process creates an opening, so that the butt and shaft can dovetail to a depth of seven inches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This pulley was connected by a cord to a little paper toy representing a man sawing wood. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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