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saws
We have found lemma(root) word of saws : saw.
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[sɔː], (Noun)
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- a hand tool for cutting wood or other hard materials, typically with a long, thin serrated blade and operated using a backwards and forwards movement
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Old English saga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaag
[sɔː], (Verb)
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- cut (something) using a saw
(e.g: the top of each post is sawn off at railing height)
- make rapid to-and-fro motions in cutting something or in playing a stringed instrument
(e.g: he was sawing away energetically at the loaf)
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Old English saga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaag
[sɔː], (Verb)
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[sɔː], (Noun)
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- a proverb or maxim
(e.g: as the old saw goes, there is nothing new under the sun)
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Old English sagu ‘a saying, speech’, of Germanic origin; related to German Sage, also to say and saga
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