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saw

/sɔː/
noun
  1. A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal

  2. A musical saw.

  3. A sawtooth wave.

verb
  1. To cut (something) with a saw.

    "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;"

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

    "The fiddler sawed away at his instrument."

  3. To be cut with a saw.

    "The timber saws smoothly."

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