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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
saw .
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Examples
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When Silicon Valley has it sfiber chain sawed, people are down.
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I once witnessed a 7 pt being sawed from a barbed wire fence when I was about 8.
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I agree with Mr. Broussard that the totem pole needs to be chain sawed down, but not the Federal totem pole, but rather the State and Local government totem poles.
Think Progress » “One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 2005
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Some of the more reckless boys had skated out to the steamboat channel, which had been sawed from the open water in the middle of the lake, so that the freight boats from Lumberport and Keyport could get to their docks.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize 1914
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There was one general exception to this assignment of cooking duties to women: when men were out fishing, they cooked a meal of stewed fish and potatoes for themselves in sawed-off puncheon tubs insulated with clay and rocks; but it was common for women to prepare the men's grub boxes, which contained all the items, other than fish, that the men would require for their mug-up on the boat, such as tea, molasses, bread, and perhaps a piece of gingerbread.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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One of the intruders was armed with what police described as a sawed-off gun.
MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010
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He was carrying what police described as a sawed-off gun and wore dark clothing.
MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010
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But we're not sure what to call his sawed-off belly putter with an oversized grip.
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Hey I have been called a sawed off little prick a few times, but I have never sent anybody the pictures to prove it!
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Indeed, like Icky Vicky, the Evoque has a kind of sawed-off, famished look.
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