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whipsaw
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a crosscut saw operated by two people vb. 1 to operate a whipsaw 2 to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises 3 to defeat someone in two different ways at once
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whipsaw \Whip"saw`\, n. A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw. A kind of narrow ripsaw, tapering from butt to point, with hook teeth and averaging from 5 to 71/2 feet in length, used by ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a handsaw intended for use by two people [syn: two-handed saw ] v. victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations saw with a whipsaw [also: whipsawn ]
Usage examples of whipsaw.
The door to the inbound bag room was a heavy steel slab, but it might as well have been balsa wood the way it whipsawed back and forth in the storm.
Here, by hand, with an inadequate whipsaw, they sawed the sprucetrunks into lumber.
Arno had not worked out well in that regard, proving too brusque for the whipsaw warm-and-reassuring pose useful before the cameras.
It is called a whipsaw, as well, when you are cut at or torn in two directions, back and forth, so that, no matter your efforts, you are pulled and then pushed until you are cut apart.
No tradesmen were at the saw pit, one in the pit and one above, working with a whipsaw through a timber placed over the mouth of the pit.
Viciously, cruelly, brutally, she kept the pistol going like a whipsaw until, bleeding and dazed, Meyer Meyer collapsed, on the desk top, almost overturning the bottle of nitroglycerin.
And so we poison ourselves and whipsaw our dispositions and rot our teeth.
The Reverend Starbuck, oblivious of the bullets that whipsawed around his horse, cheered his Northerners on.
She fell only inches, dangerously close to getting pulled under the stern section as it whipsawed around.
Respiratory functions were on the high side, but sustainable, as hormone levels whipsawed between apparent panic and anger states.
Now they swayed violently on their lengths of wire, whipsawing like irregular pendulums.
He was on the lower slope of the breach now, and his whole world was nothing but noise and smoke and whipsawing bullets.
The heavy chassis rocked from side to side, and in the rearview mirror Hazen could see two rows of corn whipsawing in his wake.
Rheinbeck sprang to his feet, chair tilting crazily behind him, before he realized it was just whipsawing tree branches and another window getting blown out by the wind.
It was still there, but the letters looked fresher than they should have, and the leather here looked frayed and faded and whipsawed, as if other names had been inked in the same spot and then erased.