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.
"My dad was downstairs and he was sawing and a bear came," he recounts.
His 30 minutes of sawing proves pivotal: His next shot lands in a clearing 150 yards beyond, and he ends up with a 39 to enter the final round.
In his view, quality advertising is created and tailored to the client, and therefore the notion of buying used ads is like sawing off bodies to fit the coffins.
There was a din of resumed hammering and sawing.
I'm broke." In 1962, Mr. McReynolds and some friends put on an exhibition of logging skills like pole climbing, tree sawing and ax heaving at the Fourth of July festivities.
Then one would hear a most lively composition, with strings sawing away like gypsies, and with a percussive keyboard instrument sounding something like the clangorous Hungarian-gypsy cimbalom.
The art world has a hunger for self-destructive heroes and Gordon Matta-Clark, famous for sawing buildings in half, and son of the surrealist painter Roberto Matta, seemed a perfect example of a dubious stereotype.