ripsaw
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of ripsaw
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“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)
If he wants to make furniture, he discovers he needs a bigger, stationary tool for ripsawing heavy pieces of wood, buys himself an arbor saw for $150.
From Time Magazine Archive
I could see, if nobody else could, that my boy was ripsawing the horse's mouth, and I knew it was all right.
From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.
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