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  • noun Plural form of bandsaw.

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Examples

  • Consumers with one of these recalled bandsaws should stop using them immediately until a repair kit is installed.

    NewsInferno 2009

  • At the mill, the blades from the large and powerful bandsaws that first cut the logs would strike the spikes, sending deadly bits of splintered bandsaw blade flying around the mill floor.

    Ben Daniel: Jared Loughner And The Incarnation Of Violent Rhetoric Ben Daniel 2011

  • What I remember most fondly of these times was “helping” him in his basement workshop he was a master cabinet maker who taught me about furniture styles and bandsaws and sitting in a rocking chair in the dining room across from him and saying, “Tell us about when you were a little boy, Grandaddy.”

    The welfare state’s dirty little secret is out 2010

  • The men, in waistcoats, white aprons, cloth caps and collars and ties, cut out the shapes of the blades on bandsaws from three-quarter-inch planks.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The men, in waistcoats, white aprons, cloth caps and collars and ties, cut out the shapes of the blades on bandsaws from three-quarter-inch planks.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I don't think my father liked cutting trees, which in those days was done by hand, with big double-manned bandsaws.

    Language Makes the Senses One 2003

  • I don't think my father liked cutting trees, which in those days was done by hand, with big double-manned bandsaws.

    Language Makes the Senses One 2003

  • That gave the huge bandsaws two minutes in which to attain their proper speed and afforded Dan Kenyon, the head sawyer, ample time to run his steam log-carriage out to the end of the track; for Daniel, too, was

    The Valley of the Giants 1918

  • When the time came the smooth, deadly steel ribbon of the modern bandsaws hummed hungrily into the great pines; the automatic roller hurried the new-sawn boards to the edgers; little cars piled high with them shot out from the cool dimness into the dazzling sunlight; men armed with heavy canvas or leather stacked them in the yards; and then ----

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • In addition, a couple of power saws and vertical bandsaws, off-hand grinders, tooling, accessories and vices were also sourced for both the machine shop and the sheet-metal workshop.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

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