Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sharp and wiry or rasping in tone, as a bird's note; sounding like a saw in use or being sharpened.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having rough edges that can be used for sawing
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Examples
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On Monday, live video feeds showed robot submarines moving equipment around and using a circular saw-like device to cut small pipes at the bottom of the Gulf.
Gulf Fisherman On Oil Spill: 'Our Way Of Life Is Over. It's The End, The Apocalypse' 2010
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On Monday, live video feeds showed robot submarines moving equipment around and using a circular saw-like device to cut small pipes at the bottom of the Gulf.
Gulf Oil Spill: Best Chance To Stop Leak Won't Be Ready Until August 2010
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Video feeds throughout the day Monday showed the robots using a circular saw-like device to cut small pipes around the leaking riser, clearing the way for the operation which could begin as soon as Wednesday.
Cut-And-Cap: Robot Submarines Set Up Next Gulf Oil Spill Containment Effort 2010
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Sudun then went in, clothed himself in gilded armour, girt on a saw-like sword, and came out holding a shining club in his hand.
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Behind them Ali moved noiselessly laying the table, ranging solemnly the ill-assorted and shabby crockery, the tin spoons, the forks with broken prongs, and the knives with saw-like blades and loose handles.
Almayer's Folly 2006
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= X anw the operation was bloody. not as bloody as expected though. what was in my mind initially was using a saw-like equipment to saw open the part of the body to be operated on and blood spills out. luckily it wasn't like that in reality!
turdle Diary Entry turdle 2006
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Check out this gallery for a look at the various sea creatures like the large-tooth sawfish which uses its saw-like nose for defense and digging food in the sand.
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They were clad in brilliantly-painted cloths, and the soldiers were armed with the saw-toothed war-club, the bow and arrows barbed and poisoned with the juice of the euphorbium, the cutlass, the “sima,” a long sabre (also with saw-like teeth), and some small battle-axes.
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For these reasons the expulsion of water and the seizing of their food is rapid, and their teeth are sharp and in almost all cases arranged in a saw-like fashion, for they are debarred from chewing their food.
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For these reasons the expulsion of water and the seizing of their food is rapid, and their teeth are sharp and in almost all cases arranged in a saw-like fashion, for they are debarred from chewing their food.
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