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quarter-saw

quarter-saw is the alternative spelling of quartersaw.

Meaning of quartersaw

Verb

quartersaw (third-person singular simple present quartersaws, present participle quartersawing, simple past quartersawed, past participle quartersawn)

  1. Cut radially (towards the heart of the log), at right angles to the growth rings, for stability or the production of decorative patterns.

Forms of quarter-saw

third-person singular presentquarter-saws
present participlequarter-sawing
past participlequarter-sawed
pastquarter-sawed

Questions about quarter-saw

What is quarter-saw the alternative spelling of?
Quarter-saw is the alternative spelling of quartersaw.

Words near quarter-saw in the dictionary

  1. quarter-pound
  2. quarter-pounder
  3. quarter-pounders
  4. quarter-round
  5. quarter-rounds
  6. quarter-saw
  7. quarter-sawed
  8. quarter-saws
  9. quarter-section
  10. quarter-sections
  11. quarter-staff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quarter-saw (page history and authors); quartersaw (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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