According to Mack, he nearly killed her, broke 18 of her bones and, “sawed much of my hair off with [a] dull knife.”
In a matter of weeks, Putin has sawed the Crimea off Ukraine and glued it into the Russian Federation.
I had one gun, an M-1 from World War I, but it was sawed down a little bit.
I knew boys who would have sawed their own arm off to have sex with a girl, were there a marketplace for such a transaction.
Violent and provocative, Boardwalk Empire's story isn't all sawed off shotguns and brutal beatings.
The boards we used in the building had to be sawed by us two slaves with a whipsaw.
Nothing but green timber was sawed thereabout in those days.
As stage driver, old Monte for every other night will get sawed off on Tucson.
She took an old broom handle, and sawed it into thin slices.
The vines were sawed squarely off below the surface of the ground.
toothed cutting tool, Old English sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sago "a cutting tool" (cf. Old English seax "knife," Old Norse sög, Norwegian sag, Danish sav, Swedish såg, Middle Dutch saghe, Dutch zaag, Old High German saga, German Säge "saw"), from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (cf. Latin secare "to cut," Russian sech' "to cut;" see section (n.)).
"proverb, saying, maxim," Old English sagu "saying, discourse, speech, study, tradition, tale," from Proto-Germanic *saga-, *sagon- (cf. Middle Low German, Middle Dutch sage, zage, German Sage "legend, fable, saga, myth, tradition," Old Norse saga "story, tale, saga"), from PIE root *sek(w)- "to say, utter" (see say (v.)).
past tense of see; from Old English plural sawon.