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quartersawn

quartersawn is the past participle 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.

Questions about quartersawn

What is quartersawn the past participle of?
Quartersawn is the past participle of quartersaw.

Words near quartersawn in the dictionary

  1. quarters
  2. quarters of an hour
  3. quartersaw
  4. quartersawed
  5. quartersawing
  6. quartersawn
  7. quartersaws
  8. quarterstaff
  9. quarterstaffs
  10. quarterstaves
  11. quartertime

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quartersawn (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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