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saws

saws is the plural of saw.

saws is the third-person singular simple present indicative of saw.

Meaning of saw

Noun (1)

saw (plural saws)

  1. (usually) Such a tool with a toothed blade.
    • Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade
  2. (sometimes) Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
  3. A musical saw.
  4. A sawtooth wave.
  5. The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.

Noun (2)

saw (plural saws)

  1. (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
    • And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid[…].
      And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded[…].1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...

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Noun (1) capitalized: SAWs

SAWs

  1. (plural) plural of SAW

Noun (2) capitalized: Saws

Saws

  1. (plural) plural of Saw

Phrases with saws

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Words that rhyme with saws

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Questions about saws

What is saws the plural of?
Saws is the plural of saw.
What part of speech is saws?
Saws is a noun.

Words near saws in the dictionary

  1. Sawpit Creek
  2. sawpits
  3. sawqui
  4. Sawrey
  5. Sawreys
  6. saws
  7. saws gourds
  8. saws logs
  9. saws off
  10. saws off the branch one is sitting on
  11. saws the baby in half

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saws (page history and authors); SAWs (page history and authors); Saws (page history and authors); saw (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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