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- noun Plural form of
hacksaw . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hacksaw .
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Examples
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No files or hacksaws, which is all he was worried about.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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No files or hacksaws, which is all he was worried about.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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But I can imagine that if a deaf person had strolled into the auditorium and watched those four musicians on the stage sawing away at their instruments with stringed bows, the deaf person might have interpreted their efforts as a woefully ineffectual means of trying to cut their instruments in half, and offered them hacksaws instead.
Eliot Daley: Welcome, Atheists. But, Really, Why Are You Here? Eliot Daley 2011
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But I can imagine that if a deaf person had strolled into the auditorium and watched those four musicians on the stage sawing away at their instruments with stringed bows, the deaf person might have interpreted their efforts as a woefully ineffectual means of trying to cut their instruments in half, and offered them hacksaws instead.
Eliot Daley: Welcome, Atheists. But, Really, Why Are You Here? Eliot Daley 2011
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Haiti Recycling is the end of the line for the rebar pulled from wrecked buildings throughout the city by thousands of workers wielding sledgehammers and hacksaws.
Haiti's Rubble Holds Key to Survival, as Scrap-Metal Economy Soars José de Córdoba 2010
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Haiti Recycling is the end of the line for the rebar pulled from wrecked buildings throughout the city by thousands of workers wielding sledgehammers and hacksaws.
Haiti's Rubble Holds Key to Survival, as Scrap-Metal Economy Soars José de Córdoba 2010
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The amputations performed with hacksaws and vodka.
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Andres Martinez Casares/Polaris for The Wall Street Journal Rebar, the steel rods that reinforce concrete, is being pulled from wrecked buildings throughout the city by thousands of workers wielding sledge hammers and hacksaws.
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The amputations performed with hacksaws and vodka.
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Andres Martinez Casares/Polaris for The Wall Street Journal Rebar, the steel rods that reinforce concrete, is being pulled from wrecked buildings throughout the city by thousands of workers wielding sledge hammers and hacksaws.
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