Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rectangular frame in which a mill-saw or gang of mill-saws is stretched. Also sawmill-gate, saw-sash.
- noun The motion or progress of a saw (?).
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Examples
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Phares 14.4 records the case of a boy of nine who, while playing in the saw-gate of a cotton-press, was struck by the lever in revolution, the blow fracturing both bones of the leg about the middle.
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Phares records the case of a boy of nine who, while playing in the saw-gate of a cotton-press, was struck by the lever in revolution, the blow fracturing both bones of the leg about the middle.
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