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buzz saw

noun

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  1. A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth,…

    A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.

    • The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.
    • The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood
    • A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle.

  2. A type of noisemaker in the form of a spinning disc spun on an untwisting string like a…

    A type of noisemaker in the form of a spinning disc spun on an untwisting string like a whirligig.

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