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saw

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3 lettersPronunciation /sɔː/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aswStarts with SEnds with W1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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; […]

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