chain saw
a power saw, usually portable, having teeth set on an endless chain.
Origin of chain saw
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Other definitions for chain-saw (2 of 2)
or chain·saw
to cut or cut down (lumber, a tree, etc.) with a chain saw.
to use a chain saw.
Origin of chain-saw
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How to use chain saw in a sentence
A woman in Georgia wrote to the owner of Coney Market asking him to buy her a couple of chain saws for her farm.
Powerball mystery: Someone in this tiny town won $731 million. Now everyone wants a piece of it. | Marc Fisher | June 17, 2021 | Washington PostA gold-clad Pinocchio sculpture by Hubert Le Gall seems to have severed its own nose with a chain saw.
Baltimore exhibition of outsider art celebrates nature’s ‘excess’ with a wake-up call about pollution | Kelsey Ables | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostI think violence is such a part of him—in the way that he was watching The Texas chain saw Massacre before school as a kid.
Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn on Sex, Violence & More | Marlow Stern | July 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe headlines were gruesome: after shooting and killing him, she had used a chain saw to dismember his body.
My First Autopsy Report: Excerpt From David Berg’s ‘Run, Brother, Run’` | David Berg | June 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA neighbor also told police that Gerhartsreiter borrowed his chain saw and returned it in the spring of 1985.
Fake Rockefeller, Real Murder: The Case of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter | Christine Pelisek | March 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
So we need more pressure on AQAP, but with a scalpel, not a chain saw.
British Dictionary definitions for chain saw
a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain
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