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ripsaws

ripsaws is the plural of ripsaw.

ripsaws is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about ripsaws

What is ripsaws the plural of?
Ripsaws is the plural of ripsaw.

Words near ripsaws in the dictionary

  1. ripsack
  2. ripsacks
  3. ripsaw
  4. ripsawed
  5. ripsawing
  6. ripsaws
  7. ripsawyer
  8. ripsawyers
  9. ripshit
  10. ripsnorter
  11. ripsnorters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ripsaws (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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