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Saw
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- 1 صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”) proscribed, sometimes
- 1 Initialism of Stock Aitken Waterman, an English songwriting and record production trio. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 A surname.
- 1 A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
- 2 Something spoken; speech, discourse. obsolete
"And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid[…]. And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded[…]."
- 3 Acronym of squad automatic weapon or section automatic weapon, a kind of light machine gun. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 4 A Bahamian. slang
"Since Tea Cake and Janie had friended with the Bahaman workers in the ’Glades, they, the “Saws,” had been gradually drawn into the American crowd."
- 5 a power tool for cutting wood wordnet
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- 6 A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.; Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
- 7 A saying or proverb. archaic
"old saw"
- 8 Initialism of surface acoustic wave. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 9 hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting wordnet
- 10 A musical saw.
- 11 Opinion, idea, belief. obsolete
"by thy saw"
- 12 Acronym of solar array wing abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 13 a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people wordnet
- 14 A sawtooth wave.
- 15 Proposal, suggestion; possibility. obsolete
"c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe."
- 16 The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
- 17 Dictate; command; decree. obsolete
"[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw."
- 1 To cut (something) with a saw. transitive
"They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented."
- 2 simple past of see form-of, past
- 3 cut with a saw wordnet
- 4 To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. intransitive
"He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]"
- 5 past participle of see colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past
"Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw."
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- 6 To be cut with a saw. intransitive
"The timber saws smoothly."
- 7 To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw. transitive
"to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)"
Etymology
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”). The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”). The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
From Middle English sawe, from Old English sagu, saga (“story, tale, saying, statement, report, narrative, tradition”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagā, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē-, from *sekʷ- (“to say”). Cognate with Dutch sage (“saga”), German Sage (“legend, saga, tale, fable”), Danish sagn (“legend”), Norwegian soga (“story”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”). More at saga, say. Doublet of saga.
From Arabic
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Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a sawyer, from saw. Compare Sawyer. * Borrowed from Hindi साव (sāv); this surname is predominantly found in Jharkhand state. * Borrowed from Burmese စော (cau:), a nickname meaning "honorable".
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