handsaw
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of handsaw
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; see origin at hand, saw 1
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Adams uses a handsaw or occasionally a hatchet; volunteers aren’t allowed to use power tools or poisons.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
A simple handsaw, such as a hacksaw or coping saw, should work fine.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2021
Wielding a folding handsaw, 75-year-old Bob Smith clambered through tangled undergrowth to prune trees bearing bright red beans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
You know, one of the images I found, actually, in early South Carolina was a white guy and a black guy working on opposite ends of the same handsaw, you know.
From Slate ● May 18, 2015
We are one week gone from finding the handsaw.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
Old handsaws and other tools make for great background elements.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
His aggressive and beautiful paintings feature heads and bodies spinning in and floating among lamps and houses, plants and handsaws.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2020
A large rack of handsaws hung on one wall.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2018
That means using handsaws to clear deadfall from trails, block-and-tackle pulley rigs to lift bridge timbers and spud bars to pry rocks out of trail treads.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 19, 2017
Shelves of goods—buttons, handsaws, sugar, rifles, bullets, scissors, pencils, bolts of cotton cloth, medicine, toys, in no particular order—lined the walls.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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