Any of various tools, either hand-operated or power-driven, having a thin metal blade or disk with a sharp, usually toothed edge, used for cutting wood, metal, or other hard materials.
VERB:
Inflected forms: sawed, sawed or sawn ( sôn), saw·ing, saws
TRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To cut or divide with a saw. 2. To produce or shape with a saw: sawed a hole in the board.3. To make back-and-forth motions through or on: a speaker who saws the air with his arms.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1. To use a saw: sawing along the chalk line.2. To undergo cutting with a saw: Pine wood saws easily.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu. See sek- in Appendix I.
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