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crosscut saw n
(Engineering / Tools) a saw for cutting timber across the grain ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| Then, teetering on the springboards, they whipped a crosscut saw back and forth as another crewman drove wedges into the cut to guide the tree's fall. The Weinig Group (Euro 350 million in sales) focuses on products for the solid wood industry, namely Weinig moulders, planers, tool grinders, tooling and mechanical handling systems; Waco high-speed moulders and planers; Dimter optimizing crosscut saws, Grecon fingerjointing machines, Raimann rip saws and Control Logic vision systems. Realizing that a way of life was ending, Ames recorded rare film of woodsmen working crosscut saws, horses twitching logs to the riverbank, log drivers in caulked boots balancing on the Machias River, and, 70 miles downstream in the town of Machias, logs being lifted from the mill pond to the bandsaw, and finished lumber being loaded into schooners bound for Boston and New York. |
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crosscut saw - handsaw that cuts at right angles to the grain (or major axis)