bucksaw
a saw having a blade set across an upright frame or bow, used with both hands in cutting wood on a sawhorse.
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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.
Uncle Walt [Walt Mason] | Walt MasonIn 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 LondonThat is what all the boys called a bucksaw when I went to school.
In Pastures Green | Peter McArthurI 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 McArthurJohnnie bent his back, and the bucksaw resumed its protesting skreek.
The Turtles of Tasman | Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for bucksaw
/ (ˈbʌkˌsɔː) /
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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