bucksaw

[ buhk-saw ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a saw see having a blade set across an upright frame or bow, used with both hands in cutting wood on a sawhorse.

bucksaw

/ ˈbʌkˌsɔː /

a woodcutting saw having its blade set in a frame and tensioned by a turnbuckle across the back of the frame

Origin of bucksaw¹

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; buck ³ + saw ¹

The doctor cheerfully complied, and shot some dope into my hide, and made his bucksaw fairly sail, until it struck a rusty nail.

In another moment he would have knocked at the kitchen door, but the skreek of a bucksaw from the woodshed led him aside.

That is what all the boys called a bucksaw when I went to school.

I tried to recall every kind of work that a bucksaw can be used for in the hope that that would suggest the name, but I failed.

Johnnie bent his back, and the bucksaw resumed its protesting skreek.

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