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Handsaw   /hˈændsˌɔ/   Listen
Handsaw

noun
1.
A saw used with one hand for cutting wood.  Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw.



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"Handsaw" Quotes from Famous Books



... a half of them to take the places of 11,199 steam-engines, of 314,774 horse-power, that are devastating our forests. An equal number is replaced by the 16,559 water-wheels, of 326,728 horse-power, engaged in the same field of havoc. Armed with the handsaw, all the Revolutionary patriots and Tories together, withdrawing their attention entirely from military affairs, as well as from all other mundane concerns, would not have turned out one-sixth of the quantity of lumber demanded by their descendants of a period that ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various



Words linked to "Handsaw" :   back saw, carpenter's saw, cutoff saw, compass saw, hand saw, keyhole saw, saw, coping saw, splitsaw, crosscut saw, backsaw, ripsaw, pruning saw



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