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Answer for the clue "Low-tech carpentry tool ", 7 letters:
handsaw

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Word definitions for handsaw in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a saw used with one hand for cutting wood [syn: carpenter's saw ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The leader has to know, as Hamlet puts it, a hawk from a handsaw .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A saw small enough to be used by one hand. n. A saw small enough to be used by one hand.

Usage examples of handsaw.

Instinctively I looked for a second bird but, shading my eyes, saw only the leavings of the workmen hired to restore the house, a careless litter of chisels, brick hammers, bullnose planes, handsaws.

Pots and pans, scissors, handsaws, nostrums, a roll of calico for the ladies, plantations like your Quantness there were miles from anything, little worlds to themselves and he was the outside world, he was a real institution because his real stock in trade was news and gossip, welcomed with opened arms wherever he showed up with what they really hungered for.

Inside were several surgical instruments, a stainless-steel handsaw, a cranium drill, a mixed set of scalpels, forceps, hemostats, rib spreaders, and a variety of clamps, their stainless- and chromium-steel surfaces gleaming in the light of the bedside-table lamps.

It was a regular shop, for Amsel let his capital work for him and had purchased in his mother's store, hence at cost price, hammers, two handsaws, drills, pliers, chisels, and the pocketknife equipped with three blades, a leather punch, a corkscrew, and a saw.