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  • adjective hard and sharp enough to cut metal

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Examples

  • One year, in the BWCAW back-country, we found a wrecked canoe and, using the metal-cutting blade of my What-A-Saw, cut it into an reflector/chimney.

    Four Campfire Cooking Techniques for Hunters and Fishermen 2009

  • STOCKHOLM— Sandvik AB Monday said it would buy all the remaining shares in its subsidiary Seco Tools AB , one of the world's largest manufacturers of metal-cutting tools, for about 6.19 billion Swedish kronor roughly $941.5 million.

    Sandvik Takes Control of Swedish Tool Maker Christina Zander 2011

  • It has insurance operations, a metal-cutting business called Precision Steel, and a furniture rental unit called CORT.

    An 'Accident' Fixed: Berkshire Buys the Rest of Wesco Financial Erik Holm 2011

  • The billionaire investor flew into the southeastern city of Daegu on Sunday night to attend a ground-breaking ceremony on Monday for a factory run by a Korean unit of Iscar Metalworking Companies, an Israeli maker of metal-cutting tools that is 80%-owned by Berkshire.

    Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Seeks More Acquisitions In-Soo Nam 2011

  • Thermadyne makes metal-cutting and welding products.

    Private-Equity Firm to Buy Thermadyne Jodi Xu 2010

  • One year, in the BWCAW back-country, we found a wrecked canoe and, using the metal-cutting blade of my What-A-Saw, cut it into an reflector/chimney.

    Four Campfire Cooking Techniques for Hunters and Fishermen 2009

  • But he reckoned the 25-foot-tall machine — with its own small staircase leading to a long worktable and metal-cutting head — could be used to make parts to sell back to GM.

    GM Mike Spector 2010

  • More photos and interactive graphics For the discounted price of $290,000, Mr. Lashin won the last of these roughly 22-ton metal-cutting machines from the tidy floor of GM ' s defunct Grand Rapids Stamping factory near here.

    GM Mike Spector 2010

  • Mr. Munger also was an advocate of Berkshire's $4 billion investment in Iscar Metalworking Cos., an Israeli maker of metal-cutting tools, in 2006.

    Here's the Story on Berkshire's Munger 2009

  • Sandvik AB, a producer of metal-cutting tools, posted a 45% drop in fourth-quarter net profit, while Alfa Laval AB, which makes heat exchangers, said net profit fell 18% in the quarter.

    Sandvik, Alfa Laval report falling profits and demand 2009

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