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

Feigned Zeal, you saw, set out the speedier pace; But the last heat, Plain Dealing won the race: Plain Dealing for a jewel has been known; But ne'er till now the jewel of a crown.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

I must confess, also, that the bad examples which I saw set by men professing to be Christians, had a strong tendency to disgust me with religion.

From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by Cooper, James Fenimore

It is a plain soldierly narrative of what the writer actually did and saw, set down in unvarnished language, yet in English which it is a pleasure to read for its straightforward fluency.'—St.

From Mr. Edward Arnold's New and Popular Books, December, 1901 by Arnold, Edward

He had thought, too, of getting that saw set up and finished; of fencing in all his cultivated ground; of building a boat on the lake up in the hills.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut