Definitions for handsaws

handsaws hand·saw

Spelling: [hand-saw]
IPA: /ˈhændˌsɔ/

Handsaws is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in handsaws (aadhnssw).

Definitions for handsaws

noun

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

Origin of handsaws

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

Examples for handsaws

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

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

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

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.

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

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."

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?

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

Word Value for handsaws
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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