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saw
  1. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
  2. (old saw) A saying or proverb.
  3. (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief; by thy ~, in your opinion; commune ~, common opinion; common knowledge; on no ~, by no means.
  4. (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
  5. (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Spare me the old saw about love and marriage.”
sawyer
  1. One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
  2. (US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current
  3. A beetle that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
  4. (US, dialect) The bowfin.
  5. Examples:
    1. “He eventually secured a job as a sawyer with an Edinburgh timber merchant, which gave him the means to support a wife and three small children.”
      “Mills works as a sawyer in Tennessee, and his poems have the kind of down-home intelligence that comes from a man listening to people talk.”
      “An emancipist sawyer who previously murdered three people violently beat to death his lover.”
saw
sawbuck
  1. a framework for holding wood so that it can be sawed; a sawhorse
  2. (US, slang) a ten-dollar bill
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “People paid the roofers a sawbuck to pull it down, as long as they were up there.”
      “You donated a whole sawbuck to a cancer charity when they raffled off that car.”
      “Moreover, I needed a new venue that was only a short walk from a restaurant where you could get a sandwich and a soda and change from a sawbuck.”
sawtooth
  1. (plural "sawteeth") A cutting bit of a saw.
  2. (plural "sawtooths") sawtooth wave
  3. Examples:
    1. “This is a good, reliable sawtooth generator and is probably the main use for unijunctions.”
      “The serrated or sawtooth wheel is most commonly used, but a smooth wheel is preferable on delicate fabrics.”
      “Through the entranceway we glimpse a lifesize hologram of sawtooth ravines, razorback spurs and tree-serrated skylines.”
sawhorse
  1. A structure with a crosspiece used to support timber or other material for working.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “With both his small hands Dominic had gripped tightly the end of each board jutting off the sawhorse as Mr. Russo carefully cut through it.”
      “A sawhorse stands in one corner, and a metal chair with bent legs rests on its side.”
      “To ease my back and save time, I screwed a piece of plywood to the top of a sawhorse and made a crude table to catch the piece of split wood.”
sawing
  1. (plural) A shaving or fragment of sawn material.
sawer
  1. One who saws; a sawyer.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is a fortunate spot considering that it is a sawer of stone.”
      “Birmingham Contemporary Music Group will give 10 world premieres during its 2009-10 season, including a new music theatre piece by David Sawer.”
      “All of the new wind farms were installed in those four countries, Sawer added.”
sawblade
  1. The blade of a saw.
sawteeth
  1. plural of sawtooth
sawtooths
  1. plural of sawtooth
sawblades
  1. plural of sawblade
sawhorses
  1. plural of sawhorse
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Why not use a border of sawhorses for children to ride or a sturdy support for grapevines that children can also climb?”
      “Dunlap uses sawhorses built from two-by-fours, but you can also use PVC or logs.”
      “Place the marked sheet on sawhorses and cut along the penciled lines with a circular saw set to the proper depth.”
sawbucks
sawings
  1. plural of sawing
  2. Examples:
    1. “We find that from a sample of sawings of the usual size a button or small bar fairly representing the sample can be cast from about 2,000 grains.”
sawyers
  1. plural of sawyer
sawers
  1. plural of sawer
saws
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