ripsaw

American  

[rip-saw] / ˈrɪpˌsɔ /

noun

1. a saw for cutting wood with the grain.

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verb (used with object)

ripsawed, ripsawed, ripsawn, ripsawing

1. to saw (wood) in such a manner.

ripsaw British  

/ ˈrɪpˌsɔː /

noun

1. a handsaw for cutting along the grain of timber

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Etymology

Origin of ripsaw

First recorded in 1840–50; rip ¹ + saw ¹

Example Sentences

“Why? We can talk. How are the ripsaw and the welders?”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 24, 2014

As a ripsaw tailoff, he stands at the end of a screaming saw and deftly lifts some 30,000 molding strips a day into waiting trucks.

From Time Magazine Archive

He eats like a hawg, drinks like a fish, and snores like a ripsaw, so you can see there's something almost human about him.

From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson

As for Charles Weyland's ripsaw criticisms, he had analyzed them dispassionately, as he had promised, and his reason rejected them in toto.

From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

Handing the Frenchman a whole sabre, he reproved him soberly, as a carpenter might an apprentice caught using a plane for a ripsaw.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)