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What does whipsawed mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of whipsaw
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Ridge's statement may have whipsawed citizens, but what was the alternative?
The cheery lamplight that suddenly burst forth through the small square window of the whipsawed cabin below reassured her.
From out the clump of mountain ivy that skirted the hill above the whipsawed cabin there had darted a shadow.
Uncle Isaac and I borrowed the saw and went to work and whipsawed lumber for sluice boxes.
Little Hallie, too, was quite as mysterious as the whipsawed cabin in which she lived.
Then he whipsawed back to the generous mood of a man who thinks he will soon hold some power in his hands.

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