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sawn-off

adjective

  1. prenominal (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
  2. informal.
    (of a person) small in stature
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It was triangular, a piece of sawn-off wood, brown with age and ragged.

And he knocked with his stick a little piece of sawn-off board that lay beside the rushing water.

This is the last compartment, right in the nose; a sawn-off cone-shape.

There were six in all, but rather more than that number of shadowy objects had appeared unexpectedly among the sawn-off stumps.

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