SPage 78
- English Word Saw Definition To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.
- English Word Saw Definition Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
- English Word Saw Definition To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well.
- English Word Saw Definition To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.
- English Word Saw Definition To be cut with a saw; as, the timber saws smoothly.
- English Word Saw Definition of See
- English Word Saw palmetto Definition See under Palmetto.
- English Word Saw-set Definition An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest.
- English Word Saw-toothed Definition Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
- English Word Saw-whet Definition A small North American owl (Nyctale Acadica), destitute of ear tufts and having feathered toes; -- called also Acadian owl.
- English Word Saw-wort Definition Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.
- English Word Saw-wrest Definition See Saw-set.
- English Word Sawarra nut Definition See Souari nut.
- English Word Sawbelly Definition The alewife.
- English Word Sawbill Definition The merganser.
- English Word Sawbones Definition A nickname for a surgeon.
- English Word Sawbuck Definition A sawhorse.
- English Word Sawceflem Definition See Sauseflem.
- English Word Sawder Definition A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.
- English Word Sawdust Definition Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.