Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
buck-saw . See cuts undersaw .
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Examples
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The coming and going of the morning was over, not a wasp chanced to be in sight then, and except for a sound scarcely more perceptible than a steam wood-saw at work amidst the pines would have been, everything was still.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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But this time I found something at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the clapboards of the roof.
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For a crosscut saw they rig one like our wood-saw.
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He would be just as likely to sit down in the kitchen as in the parlor; and might get hold of the wood-saw as often as the guitar; and very likely he would have the baby right up in his arms and feed it and rock it to sleep.
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For instance, there are no saw-horses nor hand-saws, the smallest saw used being a miniature wood-saw, with the steel set at an angle, in a peculiar manner.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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"Life preservers," chanted Tish's subconscious self, "rubber blankets, small tent, folding camp-beds, a camp-stove, a meat-saw, a wood-saw, and some beads and gewgaws for placating the Indians."
Tish 1916
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"Life preservers," chanted Tish's subconscious self, "rubber blankets, small tent, folding camp-beds, a camp-stove, a meat-saw, a wood-saw, and some beads and gewgaws for placating the Indians."
Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Mr. Crow's kitchen, and the big wood-saw, and the hammer, and some nails, and any useful tool that they had borrowed from time to time from
Mr. Turtle's Flying Adventure Hollow Tree Stories Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Mr. Crow's kitchen, and the big wood-saw, and the hammer, and some nails, and any useful tool that they had borrowed from time to time from
Hollow Tree Nights and Days Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Arizona, but to buck a wood-saw -- perish the thought!
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