Definition of saw

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Saw (v. i.) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast..

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Tremex :: Tremex (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail..
Saw :: Saw (v. i.) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well..
Shingle :: Shingle (n.) A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below..
Terebrantia :: Terebrantia (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
Backsaw :: Backsaw (n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.
Seesaw :: Seesaw (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward..
Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.
Behn :: Behn (n.) The Centaurea behen, or saw-leaved centaury..
Pitman :: Pitman (n.) One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc..
Sash :: Sash (n.) In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate..
Serrous :: Serrous (a.) Like the teeth off a saw; jagged.
Badigeon :: Badigeon (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface..
Saw-whet :: Saw-whet (n.) A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl..
Boom :: Boom (n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away..
Oscillancy :: Oscillancy (n.) The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion.
Sweepstake :: Sweep-saw (n.) A bow-saw.
Phytophaga :: Phytophaga (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.
Saw :: Saw (v. i.) To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast..
Saw :: Saw (v. t.) Something said; speech; discourse.
Say :: Say (imp.) Saw.
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