buzzsawing

Verb

buzzsaw (third-person singular simple present buzzsaws, present participle buzzsawing, simple past and past participle buzzsawed)

1. (transitive) To cut with a circular saw.
2. (colloquial, intransitive) To spin rapidly like the blades of a circular saw.
   • The 7.62 tumblers would buzzsaw through the flimsy protection offered by the float.1990, Kyle Maning, Blood Storm, page 53
3. (ambitransitive, colloquial) To produce a loud, harsh noise like that of a circular saw.
   • When the sun comes early through eastern windows and a single horsefly buzzsaws the air it is then I rise from bed my dreams of amputation, of teeth lost, cloaked in the amnesia of another day overwhelmed with trivia.1981, Michael Hogan, The Broken Face of Summer: Poems

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