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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chainsaw
noun
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▪ Bunny threatened to chainsaw the flat in Muswell Hill and torch the goldfish, although maybe it was the other way round.
▪ In one radio commercial, Scratchman rescues a kitten stranded in a tree by firing up a chainsaw.
▪ It was another still island day and I could hear the sounds of a motorbike and chainsaw on the mainland.
▪ Laying the shotguns well out of danger, he started the chainsaw.
▪ P.S. A rainforest tree can be felled with a chainsaw in less time than it has taken you to read this letter.
▪ Read in studio A forest ranger who uses a chainsaw to fell trees is now using it to sculpt the wood.
▪ Whilst cutting her garden hedge with a chainsaw one recent summer, a woman slipped and lost her grip.
▪ You got to take a chainsaw to keep cutting it out.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
chainsaw

chainsaw \chain"saw`\ (ch[=a]n"s[add]), n. a portable power saw having teeth that are linked to form an endless chain, rotated about two pivot points by a power mechanism, such as an electric motor or a gasoline engine.

Note: They are used to efficiently cut trees, logs, or thick branches out of doors.

Syn: chain saw.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chainsaw

also chain saw, chain-saw; 1818 as a surgical apparatus; 1835 in the saw mill sense, from chain (n.) + saw (n.).

Wiktionary
chainsaw

n. A saw that has a power-driven and fast-revolving chain of metal teeth, usually used to cut trees. vb. To cut with a chainsaw.

WordNet
chainsaw

n. portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain [syn: chain saw]

Wikipedia
Chainsaw

A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable, mechanical saw which cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain that runs along a guide bar. It is used in activities such as tree felling, limbing, bucking, pruning, cutting firebreaks in wildland fire suppression, and harvesting of firewood. Chainsaws with specially designed bar and chain combinations have been developed as tools for use in chainsaw art and chainsaw mills. Specialist chainsaws are used for cutting concrete. Chainsaws are sometimes used for cutting ice, for example for ice sculpture and in Finland for winter swimming. Someone who uses a saw is a sawyer.

Chainsaw (band)

Chainsaw is the name of a punk rock band from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 1976 and split in 1978. It was one of the first punk bands in Belgium.

Chainsaw made one very sought after 7" in 77. In 78 they split and all members went to different punk bands. Dan Dee went to Modern World, Luna Park and made a Plastic Bertrand like single with Lou Deprijck; Jerry started X-Pulsion and Micky Mike did the thing with Fame and The End.

At the time of the split of Chainsaw, Jerry Wanker wrote for the rock music mag En Attendant and there he displayed his love for Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Brian Eno and the upcoming electromovement with the Human League and the like. He commented on the first Human League gig in Belgium and reviewed Kraftwerk's Man Machine.

With the birth of this movement he split from X-Pulsion and formed Digital Dance with members from different punk bands. He placed an ad for more members and a few months later Jean Marc Lederman ( Jah-Marc) entered the picture. With this band he released 3 singles, one Kraftwerk cover with the lyrics substantially changed to reflect his love for his pet dog, one on his own label and one on the freshly founded Dirty Dance Records. The latter morphed into Soundworks Records and carried all Snowy Red's early vinyl.

Text from this page retrieved on 2005-08-15.

Chainsaw (Skinny Puppy song)

Chainsaw is a single by the band Skinny Puppy. It contains new material, as well as additional material taken from their albums Bites and Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse.

Chainsaw (disambiguation)

Chainsaw is a portable motorized saw.

Chainsaw may also refer to:

  • Chainsaw (log file viewer), a GUI-based log file viewer
  • Chainsaw (punk zine), a UK punk zine
Chainsaw (log file viewer)

Chainsaw is a java-based GUI software tool to view and analyze computer log files - specifically logs generated by the Log4j logging system. Both Log4j and Chainsaw are Open source projects under Apache Software Foundation. The latest release is Chainsaw v2. Chainsaw can read log files formatted in Log4j's , receive events from remote locations, read events from a DB, or work with JDK 1.4 logging events.

Chainsaw (The Band Perry song)

"Chainsaw" is a song recorded by American country music group The Band Perry. It was released in March 3, 2014 as the fourth single from their second album, Pioneer. The song was written by Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, Matthew Ramsey.

One of the writers who help write the song, Matthew Ramsey originally recorded the song with his band Old Dominion (band).

Chainsaw (Nick Jonas song)

"Chainsaw" is a song recorded by American singer Nick Jonas from his third studio album, Last Year Was Complicated. It was released on May 13, 2016, by Island, Safehouse and Republic Records as the album's second Promotional single. The song was written by Nick Jonas, Simon Wilcox, Sean Douglas, Julia Michaels and Nolan Lambroza.

Chainsaw (punk zine)

Chainsaw, a punk zine edited by "Charlie Chainsaw" was published in suburban Croydon in 1977 and ran to fourteen issues before ceasing publication in 1984. A hand-lettered 'n' became a stylised trademark in articles after the 'n' key broke on the editor's typewriter. In addition to a free flexi disc promoting two or three up-and-coming punk bands, 1980s issues featured cartoon strips and two innovative colour covers by Michael J. Weller. 1970s issues featured the cartoon strip 'Hitler's Kids', authored by Andrew Marr using punk nom-de-plume "Willie D" at the beginning of his successful journalistic career. 1 Charlie Chainsaw formed the band Rancid Hell Spawn when the punk zine discontinued.

Chainsaw (Scream Queens)

"Chainsaw" is the third episode of the horror black comedy series Scream Queens. It premiered on September 29, 2015 on Fox. The episode was both directed and written by Ian Brennan. In this episode, the Red Devil continues the terror on campus using a chainsaw. Chanel ( Emma Roberts) finds a new project in Hester ( Lea Michele), and Dean Munsch ( Jamie Lee Curtis) appoints a new Wallace University mascot while trying to separate Gigi ( Nasim Pedrad) and Wes ( Oliver Hudson)'s budding relationship as Chad ( Glen Powell) and Earl Grey ( Lucien Laviscount) lead their fraternity on a witch hunt for the Red Devil.

The episode was watched by 3.46 million viewers and received mixed to positive reviews from critics, most of them citing it as an improvement from the two previous episodes.

Usage examples of "chainsaw".

Small Looney fell to the floor, shrieking and scooting away from the chainsaw as if it were alive and might stampede after him like a wild predator.

I sealed the kitchen door behind me with the turnbuckle, zipped my jacket all the way up to my nose, took the heavy-duty flashlight from its perch near the chainsaw, and thumbed open the latch of the outside door.

Each foursome had two chainsaws, coils of tubing and someone who knew how to lay it.

The shed itself looked as if it had encountered a giant with a chainsaw who had sawed it neatly in half, right along the rooftree, leaving it with the same three-wall construction favored by dollhouses everywhere.

Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria from nightmare and ecru marble, then hack it apart with a chainsaw and reassemble it with indifferent attention to form and order.

He hefted the chainsaw and moved as swiftly as he could toward the houseboat entrance.

He snatched the chainsaw and, pressing the starter, ran forward and swung the whirring blade at the monster.

But as soon as the head stopped screaming and the glow faded from the evil red eyes, Haven decided the thing was dead enough for federal standards and turned the chainsaw off.

Micah was an expert with a chainsaw, a drill, and a bit, but he was in over his head when it came to a computer.

His chainsaw had cut up a storm of downed limbs and dead branches when he finally killed the engine and came up for air.

He stopped at the outer woodshed for a chainsaw, a long-handled ax, and a sled.

As soon as he turned off his engine, he heard the chainsaw, all the more so when he opened his door.

Micah Smith was a head taller than he was, the chainsaw might have been a toy for the ease with which he held it, and, below an orange wool hat, his face was threatening and dark.

With a quick pull, he set the chainsaw to snarling and went to work on the trunk.

With a disparaging snort, Micah revved up the chainsaw and turned away.