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- verb Present participle of
chainsaw .
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Examples
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Wretch Eminem will say things about chainsawing his granny but with him it's like science fiction.
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He dropped his fledgling career as a cabinetmaker years ago, a symptom of moving to New York and leaving his shop behind, his dexterity now devoted to chainsawing on weekends at the gothic-revival cottage near Newburgh that he shares with his wife Fenella, a physician.
American Idyll Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012
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Furthermore, chainsawing those (actual, if not yet designated) heritage trees in Lents Park beforehand -- or any other such alterations of the historic landscape and "traditional cultural property" that Lents Park is -- would be an illegal "anticipatory demolition" under the National Historic Preservation Act, Sec. 110.
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Men in hard hats and overalls were chainsawing a fallen tree and hauling it in segments off the asphalt.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Bush had just come in from chainsawing some mountain juniper.
COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010
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Bush had just come in from chainsawing some mountain juniper.
COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010
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However, it was pretty darn spectacular for a bit there, with flames through the third story and firefighters scrambling around chainsawing holes in the roof of a hundred-year-old three-family.
i walk where the bottles break and the blacktop still comes back for more truepenny 2008
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Men in hard hats and overalls were chainsawing a fallen tree and hauling it in segments off the asphalt.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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I wasn't able to make the next day's 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. workshop because I'd planned to be upstate, well, chainsawing.
Upstate Chainsaw Masterer Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010
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Even if he was always doing some loud, industrious thing like chainsawing tree branches or vacuuming his car at annoying hours on Saturday mornings, he made me feel happy when I saw him.
The Six Rules of Maybe DEB CALETTI 2010
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