单词 | pit-saw |
释义 | pit-sawn. A long saw with handles at each end, used for cutting timber over a saw pit. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > for cutting wood > large pit-saw1454 1454 Inventory R. Crips in Tools & Trades (1984) II. 25 Putte sawe. 1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 988 In the second..[there is a description of] the Pit-Saw. 1679 in Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 361 An Iron sledge and a hand saw Iron—one Pit Saw. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 99 The Pit-Saw is..used by those Work-men that make sawing Timber and Boards their whole Business. 1774 J. Carter Builder's Mag. 276 The pit-Saw, which is a large two-handed Saw, used to saw timber in pits; this is chiefly used by the sawyers. 1848 A. S. Atkinson Jrnl. 26 Oct. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) III. 46 Pit-saws; whit saws; and crosscuts, and files for ditto. 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. 5/1 An improvement over the gate saw, almost as great as was the gate over the pit saw. 1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. ix. 219 I should think this will be the last pit-saw to be used in Canterbury. 1994 Independent on Sunday 26 June (Review Suppl.) 77/1 There, among the leather bags, tin mugs and donkey jackets is another ancient tool, the pit-saw, used by two men sawing at different levels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pit-sawv. transitive. To cut (timber) with a pit-saw. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > cut timber with pit-saw pit-saw1960 1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 66 A shack that he and his brother had built from timber they'd pit-sawn themselves 30 years before. 1965 F. Russell Secret Islands v. 76 ‘This was where we pitsawed,’ he said doubtfully. 1995 Amer. Visions (Nexis) Feb. 10 They labored at such chores as pit-sawing lumber or hauling stone. 2000 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 3 June 28 The totara was given by local farmer John Daysh and pitsawn by another farmer, Abraham Harris. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1454v.1960 |
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