Crossword clues for sawing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saw \Saw\, v. t. [imp. Sawed; p. p. Sawed or Sawn; p. pr. & vb. n. Sawing.]
To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel.
Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
Wiktionary
n. (context mostly plural English) A shaving or fragment of sawn material. vb. (present participle of saw English)
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Usage examples of "sawing".
Ye biggit houses, and ye plantit vineyards, an threw away money as ye had been sawing sklatestanes.
The horse, astonished at such treatment, bolted a little way, Savage sawing at its mouth.
While the four men loaded the cut logs onto the wagon, Cerryl had continued sawing the smaller lengths of pole pine branches into sections a cubit long, wood for cooking and heat, stacking each length neatly in the pile.
Sky Captain suddenly grimaced, incredulous that Dex had stopped sawing.
A little later he was occupied in devising improved machines for sawing and bending timber, and in 1811 and 1812 he was employed by the government in erecting saw-mills at Woolwich and Chatham, carrying out at the latter dockyard a complete reorganization of the system for handling timber.
Placido Geist pulled the bit back, not sawing at her mouth, but straightening her neck.
I could see that Hassel was capable of other things besides sawing birchwood.
Horse and man seemed like one, but when Reland had ridden the stallion his commands had usually been accompanied by a heavy-handed sawing on the reins and a pronounced flogging of the heels.
There was a sinister glitter to the black, runcinate blade, as if its sawing teeth waited to bite flesh.
Teller felt her muscles pull as Jay slid his cock halfway out and rammed up into her several times, his flush root sawing between her legs.
He ran water from the cistern in the yard and sponged off in the kitchen, the silence of the town sawing at his nerves.
Alone now, he felt as if he were out on a limb and an invisible Bonner was sawing it off.
It was a bronchitic giggle, brought up sawing from the depths of a chest in desperate search of air.
Herrero roared his rage, pushed a crewman aside and seized the mainsheet, sawing the boom to and fro in search of the optimum position.
Yet there is pity, too, excited by the spectacle of the little cripple sawing away, his face proud and sombre despite its monkeyish shape and the mass of crinkly hair working loose over his wrinkled brow.