A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
A musical saw.
Something spoken; speech, discourse.
And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid[…]. And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded[…].
Initialism of surface acoustic wave.
A Bahamian.
Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd.
To cut (something) with a saw.
They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
Initialism of Stock Aitken Waterman, an English songwriting and record production trio.
A surname.
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cogn...
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He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]
simple past of see