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Answer for the clue "Lumber mill fixture ", 6 letters:
ripsaw

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Word definitions for ripsaw in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context woodworking English) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip. n. (context woodworking English) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip. vb. To cut with a ripsaw.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ripsaw \Rip"saw`\, [See Rip , v. t., 4.] (Carp.) A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the grain (the fiber); -- called also ripping saw .

Usage examples of ripsaw.

Margaret had resented him because she was senior in Operation Ripsaw to him, but as the others were sucked in they found him there already.

Yet these were not Ripsaw, not yet, only the separate tools that Ripsaw would someday pick up and use.

Washington to argue an allocation of seventy rather than sixty armored divisions for Ripsaw, for instance, General Grote just sat, smiled and smoked his pipe.

Commerce with the outside world, except via coded messages to other elements of Ripsaw, was a capital offense-as three privates learned the hard way.

Kramer came in when his buzzer sounded, made coffee for the two generals and was aware that Grote and Clough were old pals and that the Ripsaw general was kidding the pants off his guest.

Half-muffled by the wind, it was the faint ripsaw noise of approaching motorcycles.

The time they went to Washington to argue an allocation of seventy rather than sixty armored divisions for Ripsaw, for instance, General Grote just sat, smiled and smoked his pipe.

At each end, ropes and pulleys connected it to a long ripsaw, each two of our longest welded together.

He knew that sound, high-pitched and angry like a ripsaw chewing through green wood.

Sam nodded, and eased into the hall to the right, ripsaw blade from the ammo-box at his side in his odd hand.

The old man missed a beat in his snoring, then resumed his usual ripsaw rhythm.

I did some time studies and calculated that, even with all of our ripsaws going constantly, the snow would be flying before the place was half done.

I took one of our four-yard ripsaws and sketched a three-yard-long cylinder at each end of it.

At first glance, you normally wouldn't notice much or any difference between a crosscut saw and a ripsaw, but in use the difference is huge.

I'd had a dozen steel crosscut saws and ripsaws made, some of them four yards long.