saw

A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.

A musical saw.

A sawtooth wave.

The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.

To cut (something) with a saw.

They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]

To be cut with a saw.

The timber saws smoothly.

To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)

to saw shingles

Something spoken; speech, discourse.

And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid[…]. And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded[…].

A saying or proverb.

old saw

And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.

Opinion, idea, belief.

by thy saw

commune saw

Proposal, suggestion; possibility.

c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.

Dictate; command; decree.

[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.