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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Here, when things get tricky, Millie and Tim reach for an electric handsaw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2025
Keep a box with these essential basics: a tape measure, claw hammer, utility knife, level, crescent wrenches, hex keys, a handsaw, pliers, multiple screwdrivers and a collection of screws and nails.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023
Back at Linden Hill on Friday, the Donovans used a handsaw to cut down their tree, getting the pines at the bottom cut so it would stand up easily.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 26, 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
Whatever went missing in Parke County, from a handsaw to a heifer, people said the Tarboxes got it.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Old handsaws and other tools make for great background elements.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
The avalanche carnage in East Snowmass Creek is within the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, so handsaws must be used.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2020
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
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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