Exaggeration and hyperbole are constant campaign companions, as useful and expected as hammers and saws on a construction site.
In his wrenching new film, 127 Hours, James Franco plays a hiker who saws off his own arm.
Stryker saws whined, running water drummed, and bone dust sifted through the air like flour.
White doctors had sharp lancets to draw blood, scalpels to cut into sick people's bodies, saws to cut off infected limbs.
He stepped up to one of the saws and spoke to the man who was running it.
We pass two stations in which the hard Caithness flagstones so well known in commerce are jointed by saws wrought by machinery.
We had a mill with two sash saws, that is, saws set in a sash.
This village, the first American settlement on the St. Croix, had one large mill with six saws.
And I know that there are hatchets and saws in your establishment.
The gate was made of planks shaped with the axe, for the natives have no saws.
toothed cutting tool, Old English sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sago "a cutting tool" (cf. Old English seax "knife," Old Norse sög, Norwegian sag, Danish sav, Swedish såg, Middle Dutch saghe, Dutch zaag, Old High German saga, German Säge "saw"), from PIE root *sek- "to cut" (cf. Latin secare "to cut," Russian sech' "to cut;" see section (n.)).
"proverb, saying, maxim," Old English sagu "saying, discourse, speech, study, tradition, tale," from Proto-Germanic *saga-, *sagon- (cf. Middle Low German, Middle Dutch sage, zage, German Sage "legend, fable, saga, myth, tradition," Old Norse saga "story, tale, saga"), from PIE root *sek(w)- "to say, utter" (see say (v.)).
past tense of see; from Old English plural sawon.