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- English Word Sawed Definition of Saw
- English Word Sawed Definition of Saw
- English Word Sawer Definition One who saws; a sawyer.
- English Word Sawfish Definition Any one of several species of elasmobranch fishes of the genus Pristis. They have a sharklike form, but are more nearly allied to the rays. The flattened and much elongated snout has a row of stout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.
- English Word Sawfly Definition Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.
- English Word Sawhorse Definition A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
- English Word Sawing Definition of Saw
- English Word Sawmill Definition A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.
- English Word Sawn Definition of Saw
- English Word Sawneb Definition A merganser.
- English Word Sawtooth Definition An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.
- English Word Sawtry Definition A psaltery.
- English Word Sawyer Definition One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer.
- English Word Sawyer Definition A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current.
- English Word Sawyer Definition The bowfin.
- English Word Sax Definition A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
- English Word Sax-tuba Definition A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba.
- English Word Saxatile Definition Of or pertaining to rocks; living among rocks; as, a saxatile plant.
- English Word Saxhorn Definition A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.
- English Word Saxicava Definition Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.