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saw I. Etymology: Middle English saugh (past singular), sawen (past plural), from Old English seah (past singular), sāwon (past plural) past or nonstandard past part of see II. \ˈsȯ\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, sage; akin to Old High German sega, saga saw, Old Norse sög saw, Latin secare to cut, securis ax, secula sickle, Old Slavic sěšti to cut, sekyra ax, Albanian shatë mattock; basic meaning: to cut 1. a. (1) : a manually operated or power-driven tool used to cut hard material (as wood, metal, or bone) and usually consisting of a thin flat blade or plate of tempered steel with a continuous series of teeth on the edge and mounted in a handle or frame (2) : a saw blade b. : any of various tools or devices without teeth that cut by wearing out a kerf: as (1) : helicoidal saw (2) : a soft steel disk revolved at high speed to cut metal (as armor plate) c. : a tool or machine having a saw for cutting 2. a. : the ovipositor of a sawfly b. : the snout of a sawfish III. verb (sawed ; sawed \ˈsȯd\ ; or sawn \ˈsȯn\ ; sawing ; saws) Etymology: Middle English sawen, from sawe saw transitive verb 1. a. : to cut with a saw < saw timber > < saw marble > < saw the log in two > b. : to cut into pieces as if with a saw < about 20 carbines and tommy guns practically sawed him in half — Bill Alcine > c. : to cut kerfs across (the back of an unbound hand-sewn book) to receive the cords that secure the covers in order to prevent the cords from raising ridges on the covered backbone — usually used with in 2. : to produce or form by cutting with or as if with a saw < solid wheels sawed from the trunks of cottonwood trees — American Guide Series: Texas > 3. a. : to cut through as though using a saw < a fir tree sawed the air with its creaking branches — Elizabeth Taylor > < do not saw the air too much with your hand — Shakespeare > b. : to give the motion of a saw to < sawing the towel across his back — A.P.Gaskell > intransitive verb 1. a. : to use a saw < he saws well > b. : to cut with or as if with a saw < a machine that can saw in many patterns > < the river that sawed through the rising mountain barrier — American Guide Series: Washington > 2. : to admit of being cut with a saw < the timber saws smoothly > 3. a. : to make motions as though using a saw < sawed at the reins > b. : to play on a stringed instrument with a bow < the cellist sawed away > • - saw alive - saw gourds - saw wood IV. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu speech, talk, discourse; akin to Old High German & Old Norse saga tale, saga, account, Old English secgan to say — more at say : a traditional saying : maxim, proverb < the old saw that ignorance is bliss — M.W.Childs > |