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rip saw

rip saw is the alternative spelling of ripsaw.

Meaning of ripsaw

Noun

ripsaw (countable and uncountable, plural ripsaws)

  1. A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
    • A ripsaw will slice smoothly along the grain, but chew up the wood if it goes against the grain.2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), pages 4-5
  2. (Caribbean, uncountable) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.

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Forms of rip saw

Noun
pluralrip saws
Verb
third-person singular presentrip saws
present participlerip sawing
pastrip sawed
past participlerip sawn

Questions about rip saw

What is rip saw the alternative spelling of?
Rip saw is the alternative spelling of ripsaw.

Words near rip saw in the dictionary

  1. rip on
  2. rip one
  3. rip out
  4. rip rap
  5. rip raps
  6. rip saw
  7. rip sawed
  8. rip sawing
  9. rip sawn
  10. rip saws
  11. rip someone a new asshole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rip saw (page history and authors); ripsaw (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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