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sawed, ppl. a.|sɔːd|
[f. saw v.1 and n.1 + -ed.]
1. a. That has undergone the operation of sawing; = sawn ppl. a. Also in comb. sawed-off (see also senses 1 b, c).
1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 15 Certayne sawed bordes of the thickenes of halfe a hande breath. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 38/1 The skinn and muscles sinck agayne downwardes, and cover the sawed bone. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 114 The Great Duke of Saxony hath three great Manufactures; one of Iron,..another of Linnen,..the third of Sawed Timbers of all sorts. 1796C. Marshall Garden. iii. (1813) 37 Espalier trees should rather be trained to sawed materials properly framed together. 1841J. W. Orderson Creoleana iii. 30 Cedar posts, sawed stones. 1895Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. 149 A couple of sawed-off antlers. 1899Daily News 13 June 4/4 In 1894 Congress passed an Act taking the duty off sawed boards, shingles [etc.].
b. sawed-off fig., short, undersized. Freq. of persons, etc.: below average height. Also ellipt. Cf. sawn ppl. a. 2 b. U.S. colloq.
1887C. B. George 40 Yrs. on Rail 22, I remember..the little sawed-off cars jolting along the uneven track. 1901S. E. White Westerners 220 Most marvellous was a clean⁓limbed, deep-chested, slender running horse, accompanied by a sawed-off English groom. 1902G. H. Lorimer Lett. from Self-Made Merchant 160, I didn't understand football, but understood that little sawed-off. 1919Dialect Notes V. 65 A tall girl never looks well dancing with a sawed-off. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 100 Two soldiers on guard, toughlooking sawedoff men. 1947Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 9 Nov. b7/7 Grover Jones, the sawed-off fullback who played one war year for Penn. 1973Black World Jan. 63/1, I..heard her say to that little sawed-off runt she calls a man.., ‘I think she tried to communicate with me.’
c. sawed-off: spec. (U.S.) used to designate a (shot)gun of which the barrel has been specially shortened to make it easier to handle and give a wider field of fire. Also ellipt. Cf. sawn ppl. a. 2 a.
1898Scribner's Mag. Jan. 86/2 There was another roar from the messenger's sawed-off shotgun. 1912W. M. Raine Brand Blotters 80 The ‘shotgun messenger’ was indolently rolling a cigarette, his sawed-off gun between his knees. 1930Sat. Even. Post 26 July 145/1 The other laughed harshly. ‘Did they knock him off?’ he grunted. ‘Nothin' but a sawed-off full in the chest an' half a dozen shots from an automatic as a chaser!’ 1935‘L. Ford’ Burn Forever 255 He'd have used a revolver, a sawed-off shotgun or a sub⁓machine gun. 1962A. Lurie Love & Friendship xiv. 280, I suppose a sawed-off shot-gun would be more his speed. 1977Time 16 May 18/1 He pulled out a sawed-off sub⁓machine gun.
2. Serrated.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 506 Vulgar Mice..drinke by licking or lapping, although their teeth be not sawed. 1757A. Cooper Distiller iii. lii. (1760) 236 This tree hath sawed Leaves, and large open Flowers. 1839Lindley Introd. Bot. iii. (ed. 3) 461 Sawed (serratus), having sharp straight-edged teeth pointing to the apex. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Saw-toothed or Sawed, serrate.
Comb.1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 127 Cutting them with a long, narrow, sawed-edged knife. |