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sawn wood

sawn wood is the past participle of saw wood.

Meaning of saw wood

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To snore loudly.
    • Monsignor Charles Kekumano, 78, was snoring loudly in his bed. Every so often, he would stop sawing wood—and break into the delightfully mischievous grin that made him so famous.1998 January 23, Diane Chang, “Monsignor Kekumano is now in heaven”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin
    Synonyms:
    saw logs

Questions about sawn wood

What is sawn wood the past participle of?
Sawn wood is the past participle of saw wood.

Words near sawn wood in the dictionary

  1. sawn
  2. sawn gourds
  3. sawn logs
  4. sawn off
  5. sawn off the branch one was sitting on
  6. sawn wood
  7. sawn-off
  8. sawn-off shotgun
  9. sawn-off shotguns
  10. sawn-offs
  11. Sawndip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sawn wood (page history and authors); saw wood (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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