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bucksaw

noun

Etymology

From buck + saw.

  1. inherited from sawen
  2. derived from *sek-✻ — “to cut”
  3. inherited from *sagô✻
  4. inherited from *sagu✻
  5. inherited from saga
  6. inherited from sawe
  7. compounded as bucksaw — “buck + saw”

Definitions

  1. A saw in a metal frame, used to cut lengths of wood.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA