Definitions for sawn

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Spelling: [sawn]

IPA: /sɔn/

Sawn is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in sawn (answ).

Definitions for sawn

noun

1. a tool or device for cutting, typically a thin blade of metal with a series of sharp teeth.
2. any similar tool or device, as a rotating disk, in which a sharp continuous edge replaces the teeth.

verb

1. a past participle of saw1 .
2. simple past tense of see1 .

Idioms

1. saw wood, Informal. to snore loudly while sleeping.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or divide with a saw.
2. to form by cutting with a saw.
3. to make cutting motions as if using a saw:
4. to work (something) from side to side like a saw.

verb (used without object)

1. to use a saw.
2. to cut with or as if with a saw.
3. to cut as a saw does.

Origin of sawn

before 1000; (noun) Middle English sawe, Old English saga, *sagu; cognate with Dutch zaag, Old Norse sǫg; akin to German Säge saw, Latin secāre to cut (see section

Examples for sawn

The waste wood at the end can now be sawn off down to the line.

The bones must then be sawn as high as exposed, with the following precautions:—1.

It is sawn off at the proper length, square at one end and slanting at the other.

This may be used as a templet for laying out the others and they can then be sawn separately.

The best wood for this purpose is plane tree, because it may easily be sawn and polished, and is beautifully veined and spotted.

The other bar was sawn on, the night the accident happened to the second sentry.

The hooves are sawn off, followed by the head, from which the tongue is removed.

You have sworn to take my body, sawn in two, to Ben-Ihreddin?

The sawn timber is stowed in 'racks' in the rear of the building.

They were stoned, they were burned, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword.