sawe

Verb

saw (third-person singular simple present saws, present participle sawing, simple past sawed, past participle sawed or sawn)

1. (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
   • They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:37
2. (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
   • He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]1835, James Hogg, The Story of Euphemia Hewit
3. (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
   • The timber saws smoothly.
4. (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
   • to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)

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