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saw

/sɔː/
nounverb

A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Noun 4 meanings

  1. A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

    “Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade”

  2. A musical saw.

  3. A sawtooth wave.

  4. The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.

Verb 4 meanings

  1. To cut (something) with a saw.

  2. To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

  3. To be cut with a saw.

    “The timber saws smoothly.”

  4. To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

    “to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)”

Definitions: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA) via Kaikki/Wiktextract

Where it comes from

Etymology

The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

SAW at a glance

SAW has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (S 1 + A 1 + W 4) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #434 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

Rhymes with saw

All rhymes
  • WARSAW12
  • OVERSAW13
  • CHAINSAW16
  • JIGSAW17
  • FORESAW13
  • HACKSAW19
  • SEESAW9
  • BANDSAW13
  • HANDSAW14
  • WHIPSAW18
  • RIPSAW11
  • FRETSAW13

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