saw set

American  

noun

1. an instrument used to bend out slightly the point of each alternate tooth of a saw so that the kerf made by the saw will be wider than its blade.

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saw set British  

noun

1. a tool used for setting the teeth of a saw, consisting of a type of clamp used to bend each tooth in turn at a slight angle to the plane of the saw to improve cutting, alternate teeth being bent in the same direction

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Etymology

Origin of saw set

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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saw set

What they saw set some kind of a record, too; for bad pitching, and for edgy, spectacular play.

From Time Magazine Archive

—Do you recollect how Robinson Crusoe, having no saw, set to work to make a plank?

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace

The position of the rock bench, with its inner margin slightly above low tide, shows that it has been cut by some agent which acts like a horizontal saw set at about sea level.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

What he saw set the cold chills chasing up his back.

From Lost in the Air by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)

Here we had planted the greatest continuous row of cannon I ever saw set for work in a battle.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus