Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
saw . - To cut with a hacksaw.
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Examples
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Rats like gnawing through cables - news to me that have evolved into rats with hack-saw teeth.
Breakdown in law and order. Glyn Davies 2008
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Department spokesman Maj Johan Massyn said a visitor was believed to have slipped a hack-saw to the prisoners.
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Hardanger took a look at the palms and fingers of my hands, still slowly welling blood from the hack-saw scratches.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
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Hardanger took a look at the palms and fingers of my hands, still slowly welling blood from the hack-saw scratches.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
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Hardanger took a look at the palms and fingers of my hands, still slowly welling blood from the hack-saw scratches.
The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
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-- Practice with the hack-saw should be indulged in frequently.
Practical Mechanics for Boys J. S. Zerbe
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Corset steels, dress steels, hack-saw blades, etc., make good thin flexible bar magnets.
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As I had already committed myself, I had to bear in silence his purposely clumsy handling of that hack-saw.
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Consequently a bit of ebonite of about the required size is first cut from the stock sheet by a hack-saw such as is generally used for metals.
On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall
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If you select a tin of the self-opening kind, you must now cut away the top with a file or hack-saw, being very careful not to bend the metal, as distortion, by altering the area of the upper end of the tin, will render the gauge inaccurate.
Things To Make Archibald Williams
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