Definitions for handsaw

handsaw hand·saw

Spelling: [hand-saw]
IPA: /ˈhændˌsɔ/

Handsaw is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in handsaw (aadhnsw).

Definitions for handsaw

noun

  1. any common saw with a handle at one end for manual operation with one hand.

Origin of handsaw

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at hand, saw1

Examples for handsaw

I know a hawk from a handsaw if I was born and bred in the backwoods.

Scott had carried out a handsaw which was kept in the pilot-house in readiness for any emergency, as well as an axe and a hatchet.

Every farmer has an axe or two, some sort of a handsaw and a nail hammer.

I will kill your parents, cut them to pieces with a handsaw, do you f--king understand me?

You are sure she picked the handsaw up by the handle, are you?

It has since been corrupted into the absurd vulgar proverb, “not to know a hawk from a handsaw!”

In my opinion he was so scairt he couldn't 'a' told a hennock from a handsaw anyway.

And then he'd see them with blisters on them and he would take a handsaw or a flat plank and bust the blisters.

Poor Richard had a formula for the case: "A handsaw is a very good thing, but not to shave with."

Then she took a handsaw, and, pale about the lips, returned to the house and to her bedroom.

Word Value for handsaw
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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