Saw \Saw\, v. t. [imp. {Sawed}; p. p. {Sawed} or {Sawn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sawing}.] 1. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
2. 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.
3. Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
Saw \Saw\, v. t. [imp. {Sawed}; p. p. {Sawed} or {Sawn}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sawing}.] 1. To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw; as, to saw timber or marble.
2. 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.
3. Also used figuratively; as, to saw the air.
Television reports said workers sawed the Dutch chemical tanker Anna Broere into two pieces and planned to hoist the parts from the floor of the North Sea.
Women assistants suffer everything but being sawed in half.
Salvage workers on Friday sawed in two the wreck of a sunken tanker loaded with a deadly chemical as a preliminary to raising the hulk, Dutch television reported.
The bones, he said, had "tool marks" showing they had been sawed from the bodies.
Drawing criticism, for example, were its coverage of a politician involved in a sexual assault and of the five-year anniversary of an accident in which a man nearly was sawed in two.
A 1,400-year-old mosaic of the Roman goddess of fortune was sawed out of a stone floor and stolen from an unguarded archaeological site in northern Israel, officials said Sunday.
Both cars _ 1980 and 1982 models that had wrecked back ends _ were sawed in half just behind the front doors.