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"saw" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often witnessed (9 letters).
Definitions
Past form of see; cutting tool
Word origin
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Used in a sentence
“Meronyms: sawtooth < sawblade”
“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.”
“He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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