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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
buzz-saw

1858, American English, from buzz (v.) + saw (n.).

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buzz-saw

n. (alternative form of buzz saw English)

Usage examples of "buzz-saw".

Seconds after the guns of 34th FIST's battery fired, six canisters of scatter munitions burst open above six Skink buzz-saw weapons.

The short stocky Carthaginian was foaming at the mouth as he swung his sword like a buzz-saw gone berserk, and the force of his swings created microclimates that boiled up into tiny whirlwinds before being absorbed into the torpor of the quiet Tsurisian landscape.

The ship slammed into a massive tree and slued to starboard, spinning like a disk as it buzz-sawed through the upper reaches of the canopy.