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hand saw

hand saw is the alternative form of handsaw.

Meaning of handsaw

Noun (1)

handsaw (plural handsaws)

  1. A saw small enough to be used by one hand.

Noun (2)

handsaw (plural handsaws)

  1. (obsolete) A heron.
    • When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act II, scene II

Forms of hand saw

pluralhand saws

Questions about hand saw

What is hand saw the alternative form of?
Hand saw is the alternative form of handsaw.

Words near hand saw in the dictionary

  1. hand sanitisers
  2. hand sanitizer
  3. hand sanitizers
  4. hand sannies
  5. hand sanny
  6. hand saw
  7. hand saws
  8. hand screen
  9. hand screens
  10. hand scrub
  11. hand scrubs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hand saw (page history and authors); handsaw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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