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resawn

resawn is the past participle of resaw.

Meaning of resaw

Verb

resaw (third-person singular simple present resaws, present participle resawing, simple past resawed, past participle resawn)

  1. (transitive) To saw again or anew, as with, especially, recutting (remilling) lumber by remaking boards into thinner boards.
    • For instance, the old Sears building in Chicago was built with wood trusses; we get beams like that and resaw them to make flooring.2007 November 15, Tim Mckeough, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times

Questions about resawn

What is resawn the past participle of?
Resawn is the past participle of resaw.

Words near resawn in the dictionary

  1. resaves
  2. resaving
  3. resaw
  4. resawed
  5. resawing
  6. resawn
  7. resaws
  8. resay
  9. resaying
  10. resays
  11. resazurin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resawn (page history and authors); resaw (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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