hacksaw
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hacksaws
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Alan Dorfman held an Etch A Sketch over a laundry tub, picked up a hacksaw and sawed the device in half, spilling silver powder everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
They were "wearing helmets, gloves, and combat gear" and carrying "an electric knife and hacksaw," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Swiss Army Gardener: A handy, foldable multi-tool combining a shovel, rake, hoe, hacksaw, pitchfork, pruning shears and posthole digger.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2019
He was sort of the go-between, but he had no idea—at least he claims he had no idea—that there were actual hacksaw blades.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2018
I had no hacksaw to cut it into smaller pieces, and I was not strong enough to heat it and hammer it apart.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Tests of 11 samples taken from slaughter tables, knives, hacksaws, transport trucks and other spots showed that eight were positive for the resistant strain.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2019
When the Browns played their final game at Municipal Stadium, fans in the Dawg Pound dismantled their wooden bleacher seats with wrenches and hacksaws.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2018
In order to find them, cops strapped on Hurst hydraulic rescue tools, hacksaws, axes, pry bars, sledgehammers, and hundreds of feet of rope.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
The boards were used to hide currency of the enemy country, silk maps and minute files and hacksaws.
From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2011
Tungsten is used principally for the magnets of magnetos, to some extent in the manufacture of hacksaws, and for special tool steels.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
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