circular saw
noun
a power saw having a disk-shaped blade, usually with a toothed edge.
circular saws
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pluralof circular saw.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“You’ll need this,” Lovett told a Times reporter as he handed out hardhats, walking his construction team through the still-raw hallways, shouting over a cacophony of circular saws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
Firefighters carted away rubble in buckets and used circular saws to cut through the collapsed scaffolding, and an excavator clawed through the rubble.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
Teens under 18 would still be generally barred from employment in fields including mining, logging, demolition, and meatpacking, and from operating potentially dangerous machinery and equipment including circular saws, guillotine shears, and punching machines.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
We learn the word for the space that the saw eats up in the wood — kerf — and how to operate circular saws, routers, drills and drivers.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
Rats running electric motors that ran belts that ran small circular saws, lathes, drills, grindstones, and other tools Mrs. Frisby could not name; rats hammering, welding, cutting.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
