gang saw

American  

noun

1. a saw having several parallel blades for making simultaneous cuts.

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gang saw British  

noun

1. a saw having several parallel blades making simultaneous cuts

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Other Word Forms

• gang sawyer noun

Etymology

Origin of gang saw

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

Mr. Gang saw that it had tremendous potential to change the world, and there was no time to waste.

From Forbes

Is it madness to suppose that if this theory is true, the head of the gang saw the official who probably was wildly alarmed, and that he said to him: "If I am arrested, I shall prove by the paper I possess, that I was ordered to get hold of those documents, and the whole world will say that the Impasse Ronsin affair was a political crime"?

From Project Gutenberg

But Bull and his gang saw fit to omit that part of the story.

From Project Gutenberg

It may be that one of the gang saw me digging there last night and assumed that I knew more than I really do.

From Project Gutenberg

We know this from the recent example of Am I Blue, when the Hereford gang saw no need to hold an inquiry into circumstances that were obviously suspicious.

From The Guardian