saw

noun11

1. •
   A tool used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
2. •
   Such a tool with a toothed blade.
3. •
   Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
4. •
   A musical saw.
5. •
   A sawtooth wave.
6. •
   The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
7. •
   A saying or proverb.

   • old saw
8. •
   (no longer used) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
9. •
   (no longer used) Opinion, idea, belief.

   • by thy saw
   • commune saw
10. •
    (no longer used) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

    • All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe. — 1350
11. •
    (no longer used) Dictate; command; decree.

    • [Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw. — 1595

verb4

1. •
   To cut (something) with a saw.

   • 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. — 1611
2. •
   To be cut with a saw.

   • The timber saws smoothly.
3. •
   To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

   • to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
   • to saw shingles
4. •
   To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

   • He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […] — 1835

exclamation1

1. •
   (nonstandard) صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ (ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wa-sallama, “peace be upon him”)

noun3

1. •
   (US) Initialism of squad automatic weapon or initialism of section automatic weapon, a kind of light machine gun.
2. •
   Initialism of surface acoustic wave.
3. •
   Acronym of solar array wing

noun1

1. •
   (slang) A Bahamian.

   • 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. — 1937