saw

noun

1. (usually)A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

   “Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade”

2. (sometimes)A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
3. A musical saw.
4. A sawtooth wave.
5. The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
6. (obsolete)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[…].”

7. (archaic)A saying or proverb.

   “old saw”

   “And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.”

   “At his crowning[…] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'”

8. (obsolete)Opinion, idea, belief.

   “by thy saw”

   “commune saw”

   “on no saw”

9. (obsolete)Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

   “c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.”

10. (obsolete)Dictate; command; decree.

    “[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.”

11. (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of squad automatic weapon or section automatic weapon, a kind of light machine gun.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of surface acoustic wave.
13. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of solar array wing
14. (slang)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.”

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

2. (intransitive)To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

   “He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]”

3. (intransitive)To be cut with a saw.

   “The timber saws smoothly.”

4. (transitive)To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

   “to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)”

   “to saw shingles”

   “to saw out a panel”

5. (form-of, past)simple past of see
6. (colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past)past participle of see

   “Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw.”

   ““I think so. He might have saw him already. Shit dude, I don't know. You run the place.””

   ““I might have saw something,” I told him. “At least I think I might have saw something. Only I couldn't say what.””

intj

1. (proscribed, sometimes)صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”)

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Stock Aitken Waterman, an English songwriting and record production trio.
2. A surname.