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Saw

sɔː

Saw definitions

noun

Inflections:

saw saws

a hand tool for cutting wood or other hard materials, typically with a long, thin serrated blade and operated using a backwards and forwards movement
- a mechanical power-driven tool for cutting which has a toothed rotating disc or moving band
- a serrated organ or part, such as the toothed snout of a sawfish

verb

Inflections:

sawn sawed saw sawing saws see

cut (something) using a saw

"the top of each post is sawn off at railing height"
- make or form (something) using a saw
  
  "the seats are sawn from well-seasoned elm planks"
- cut (something) as if with a saw, especially roughly or so as to leave rough or unfinished edges
  
  "the woman sawed off all my lovely hair"
make rapid to-and-fro motions in cutting something or in playing a stringed instrument

"he was sawing away energetically at the loaf"