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▪ I. sawn, ppl. a.|sɔːn|
Also 6–8 sawen, 7 sawne.
[pa. pple. of saw v.1]
1. That has undergone the operation of sawing; = sawed ppl. a.
1536Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 108 Pro j.c. sawen burdes. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. i. v. 16 One kind [of trees] being more fit for clappboard, others for sawne board. 1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. vi. 110 The Sawn-away slit between two peeces of stuff is called a kerf. 1679Ibid. ix. 171 Single Quarters are Sawen stuff. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 202 As for sawn Pales they are as dear, considering their lasting, as Brick or Stone. 1870J. Power Handy-bk. 41, 1751. About this date bookbinders began to use sawn-backs, whereby the bands on which the book is sewn were let into the backs of the sheets. 1891Daily News 5 Feb. 5/4 Sawn timber in brief is rapidly gaining the ascendency.
2. sawn-off (now more usu. than sawed-off exc. in N. Amer.).
a. Of a (shot)gun: = sawed ppl. a. 1 c.
1915A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear vi. 113 In the latter was a sawn-off shot-gun, so he came with the deliberate purpose of crime. 1937N. Marsh Vintage Murder ii. 14 A salute of two sawn-off shotguns. 1959Encounter July 59/1 A fifteen-year-old highschool boy who had taken a sawn-off shotgun into the classroom and blown off the head of a classmate. 1978R. Westall Devil on Road xx. 186 A sawn-off shotgun..sprays lead like a hose.
b. = sawed ppl. a. 1 b. colloq.
1936R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 162 Yet could I trudge in sawn-off trousers, And redden up like logs at Yule. 1944Coast to Coast 1943 56 He was a sawn-off little bloke, and they reckoned there couldn't have been much grass about when he was born. 1954‘J. Christopher’ 22nd Cent. 104 It's a little sawn-off town up in Scotland. 1960J. Mortimer Call me Liar 431 Found him, have you?.. That sawn-off, bald, damp-eyed old hundred per cent British duodenal with..no convictions known.
▪ II. sawn, n.|sɔːn|
Austral. slang abbrev. of sawney n. 2.
1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xvii. 145 I'm always getting into trouble through sawns. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1259/2 Sawn, a softy, a ‘dope’: low Australian.
▪ III. sawn
obs. pa. pple of sow v. |