Saw (soundtrack)
WordNet
noun
(1) A power tool for cutting wood
(2) Hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
(3) A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
verb
(4) Cut with a saw
"Saw wood for the fireplace"
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
saga. Cognate with Dutch zaag.
Noun
- A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
- A musical saw.
Verb
- To cut (something) with a saw.
- To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
- The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.
Noun
- Something spoken; speech, discourse.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
- And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid [...].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
- (often old saw) A saying or proverb.