Whipsaw: Definition and part of speech

Whipsaw

  1. n. A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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