saw-gaten.1
a. ? The passage of a saw through the wood that is being sawn. Obsolete.
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saw-gate1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 493 You must except the Oke and the Box wood, which although they be greene, do stiffely withstand the saw-gate.
b. The channel made by a saw; a saw-kerf. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > notch or cut made by saw
saw-kerf1688
saw-carf1775
saw-gate1793
saw-way1823
saw-kerfing1887
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §74 By supporting the Saw-gate with wedges, the whole of the superstructure..might have been expeditiously severed from the solid.
2. In fret-sawing, a hole bored to make way for the entrance of the saw.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > hole to make way for saw
saw-gate1873
1873 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 535 Study your [fret-work] pattern and see where to bore the holes, or saw-gates, as they are called.
1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 15 Now put the..saw-gate over the V, with the bow of the saw frame turned to the right.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
saw-gaten.2
= gate n.1 8b.
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1857 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 17 25 The saw-gate of this machine [for sawing ship-timber] is formed of hollow wrought-iron bars.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Saw-gate, the rectangular frame in which a mill-saw or gang of mill-saws is stretched.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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