bucksaw

[ buhk-saw ]

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

Origin of bucksaw

1
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; buck3 + saw1

Words Nearby bucksaw

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How to use bucksaw in a sentence

  • 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.

    The Turtles of Tasman | Jack London
  • That is what all the boys called a bucksaw when I went to school.

    In Pastures Green | Peter McArthur
  • 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.

    In Pastures Green | Peter McArthur
  • Johnnie bent his back, and the bucksaw resumed its protesting skreek.

    The Turtles of Tasman | Jack London

British Dictionary definitions for bucksaw

bucksaw

/ (ˈbʌkˌsɔː) /


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

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