Saw, the Glossary
A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge used to cut through material.[1]
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107 relations: Abrasive saw, Adze, Axe, Backsaw, Bandsaw, Blade, Bone cutter, Bone tool, Bow saw, Brass, Bucksaw, Carbide saw, Chainsaw, Chainsaw carving, Chainsaw mill, Charles W. Upham, Chisel, Circular saw, Concrete saw, Coping saw, Copper, Crosscut saw, Cutting, Dado set, Death by sawing, Diamond, Diamond blade, Diamond tool, Djer, Dragsaw, Early Dynastic Period (Egypt), Electricity, Engine, Fire-saw, Frame saw, Freezing, Fretsaw, Greek mythology, Hacksaw, Hand saw, Hand tool, Hierapolis sawmill, High-speed steel, Hole saw, Ice cutting, Iron, Iron Age, Japanese saw, Jigsaw (tool), Jigsaw puzzle, ... Expand index (57 more) »
Abrasive saw
An abrasive saw, also known as a cut-off saw or chop saw, is a circular saw (a kind of power tool) which is typically used to cut hard materials, such as metals, tile, and concrete. Saw and abrasive saw are saws.
Adze
An adze or adz is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel.
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Axe
An axe (sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split, and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol.
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Backsaw
A backsaw is any hand saw which has a stiffening rib on the edge opposite the cutting edge, enabling better control and more precise cutting than with other types of saws. Saw and backsaw are saws.
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Bandsaw
A bandsaw (also written band saw) is a power saw with a long, sharp blade consisting of a continuous band of toothed metal stretched between two or more wheels to cut material. Saw and bandsaw are saws.
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Blade
A blade is the sharp, cutting portion of a tool, weapon, or machine, specifically designed to puncture, chop, slice, or scrape surfaces or materials.
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Bone cutter
A bone cutter is a surgical instrument used to cut or remove bones.
In archaeology, a bone tool is a tool created from bone.
Bow saw
A modern bow saw is a metal-framed crosscut saw in the shape of a bow with a coarse wide blade. Saw and bow saw are saws.
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Brass
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.
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Bucksaw
A bucksaw is a hand-powered frame saw similar to bow saw and generally used with a sawbuck to cut logs or firewood to length (bucking). Saw and bucksaw are saws.
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Carbide saw
Carbide saws are machine tools for cutting. Saw and Carbide saw are saws.
Chainsaw
A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable handheld power saw that cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain driven along a guide bar. Saw and chainsaw are saws.
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Chainsaw carving
The art of chainsaw carving is a fast-growing form of art that combines the modern technology of the chainsaw with the ancient art of woodcarving.
Chainsaw mill
A chainsaw mill or PortaMill or Logosol sawmill is a type of sawmill incorporating a chainsaw, that is used by one or two operators to mill logs into lumber for use in furniture, construction and other uses.
Charles W. Upham
Charles Wentworth Upham (May 4, 1802 – June 15, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Chisel
A chisel is a wedged hand tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge on the end of its blade, for carving or cutting a hard material (e.g. wood, stone, or metal).
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Circular saw
A circular saw or a buzz saw, is a power-saw using a toothed or abrasive disc or blade to cut different materials using a rotary motion spinning around an arbor. Saw and circular saw are saws.
Concrete saw
A concrete saw (also known as a consaw, road saw, cut-off saw, slab saw or quick cut) is a power tool used for cutting concrete, masonry, brick, asphalt, tile, and other solid materials. Saw and concrete saw are saws.
Coping saw
A coping saw is a type of bow saw used to cut intricate external shapes and interior cut-outs in woodworking or carpentry. Saw and coping saw are saws.
Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
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Crosscut saw
A crosscut saw (thwart saw) is any saw designed for cutting wood perpendicular to (across) the wood grain. Saw and crosscut saw are saws.
Cutting
Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force.
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Dado set
A dado set or dado blade is a type of circular saw blade, usually used with a table saw or radial arm saw, which is used to cut dadoes or grooves in woodworking. Saw and dado set are saws.
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Death by sawing
Death by sawing is the act of sawing or cutting a living person in half, either sagittally (usually midsagittally), or transversely.
Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic.
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Diamond blade
A diamond blade is a saw blade which has diamonds fixed on its edge for cutting hard or abrasive materials. Saw and diamond blade are saws.
A diamond tool is a cutting tool with diamond grains fixed on the functional parts of the tool via a bonding material or another method.
Djer
Djer (or Zer or Sekhty) is considered the third pharaoh of the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt in current Egyptology.
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Dragsaw
A dragsaw or drag saw is a large reciprocating saw using a long steel crosscut saw to buck logs to length. Saw and dragsaw are saws.
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Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
The Early Dynastic Period, also known as Archaic Period or the Thinite Period (from Thinis, the hometown of its rulers), is the era of ancient Egypt that immediately follows the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in.
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Electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge.
Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy.
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Fire-saw
A fire-saw is a firelighting tool.
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Frame saw
A frame saw or sash saw is a type of saw which consists of a relatively narrow and flexible blade held under tension within a (generally wooden) rectangular frame (also called a sash or gate). Saw and frame saw are saws.
Freezing
Freezing is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point.
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Fretsaw
The fretsaw is a bow saw used for intricate cutting work which often incorporates tight curves. Saw and fretsaw are saws.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.
Hacksaw
A hacksaw is a fine-toothed saw, originally and mainly made for cutting metal. Saw and hacksaw are saws.
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Hand saw
In woodworking and carpentry, hand saws, also known as "panel saws", are used to cut pieces of wood into different shapes. Saw and hand saw are saws.
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A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor.
Hierapolis sawmill
The Hierapolis sawmill was a Roman water-powered stone sawmill at Hierapolis, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey).
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High-speed steel
High-speed steel (HSS or HS) is a subset of tool steels, commonly used as cutting tool material.
Hole saw
A hole saw (also styled holesaw), also known as a hole cutter, is a saw blade of annular (ring) shape, whose annular kerf creates a hole in the workpiece without having to cut up the core material. Saw and hole saw are saws.
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Ice cutting
Ice cutting is a winter task of collecting surface ice from lakes and rivers for storage in ice houses and use or sale as a cooling method.
Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
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Japanese saw
The Japanese saw or is a type of saw used in woodworking and Japanese carpentry that cuts on the pull stroke, unlike most European saws that cut on the push stroke. Saw and Japanese saw are saws.
A jigsaw is a reciprocating saw that can cut irregular curves, such as stenciled designs, in wood, metal, or other materials. Saw and jigsaw (tool) are saws.
Jigsaw puzzle
A jigsaw puzzle (with context, sometimes just jigsaw or just puzzle) is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped interlocking and mosaicked pieces, each of which typically has a portion of a picture.
Keyhole saw
A keyhole saw (also called a pad saw, alligator saw, jab saw or drywall saw) is a long, narrow saw used for cutting small, often awkward features in various building materials. Saw and keyhole saw are saws.
Log bucking
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Lu Ban
Lu Ban (–444BC).
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Lumber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.
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Material
A material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object.
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Millimetre
Different lengths as in respect to the electromagnetic spectrum, measured by the metre and its derived scales. The microwave is between 1 meter to 1 '''millimeter'''. The millimetre (international spelling; SI unit symbol mm) or millimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.
Milling cutter
Milling cutters are cutting tools typically used in milling machines or machining centres to perform milling operations (and occasionally in other machine tools).
Mitre
The mitre (Commonwealth English) (Greek: μίτρα 'headband' or 'turban') or miter (American English; see spelling differences) is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial headdress of bishops and certain abbots in traditional Christianity.
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Mitre box
A mitre box or miter box (American English) is a wood working appliance used to guide a hand saw for making precise cuts, usually 45° mitre cuts. Saw and mitre box are saws.
Mortise and tenon
A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) joint connects two pieces of wood or other material.
Musical saw
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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Panel saw
A panel saw is any type of sawing machine that cuts sheets into sized parts. Saw and panel saw are saws.
Pech-de-l'Azé cave
The Pech-de-l'Azé caves are a prehistoric site located in the French commune of Carsac-Aillac, in the Dordogne department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France.
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Pendulum saw
A pendulum saw or swing saw is a mechanically powered circular saw with the blade mounted so it can swing into the material. Saw and pendulum saw are saws.
Plywood
Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers, having both glued with each other at right angle.
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Plywood saw
A plywood saw is a saw that has a fine-toothed blade that minimizes tearing of the outer plies of a sheet of plywood. Saw and plywood saw are saws.
Polesaw
A polesaw (also pole saw or giraffe saw) is a saw attached to a pole or long handle that is used for pruning tree branches that are beyond arm's reach. Saw and polesaw are saws.
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Portable sawmill
Portable sawmills are sawmills small enough to be moved easily and set up in the field. Saw and Portable sawmill are saws.
Power (physics)
Power is the amount of energy transferred or converted per unit time.
A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labor used with hand tools.
Quarter sawing
Quarter sawing or quartersawing is a woodworking process that produces quarter-sawn or quarter-cut boards in the rip cutting of logs into lumber.
Radial arm saw
A radial arm saw is a cutting machine consisting of a circular saw mounted on a sliding horizontal arm. Saw and radial arm saw are saws.
Rake angle
In machining, the rake angle is a parameter used in various cutting processes, describing the angle of the cutting face relative to the workpiece.
Reciprocating saw
A reciprocating saw is a type of handheld, small, machine-powered saw, in which the cutting action is achieved through a push-and-pull ("reciprocating") or back-and-forth motion of the blade. Saw and reciprocating saw are saws.
Ripsaw
A ripsaw (or rip saw) is a wood saw that is specially designed for making a rip cut, a cut made parallel to the direction of the wood grain. Saw and ripsaw are saws.
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River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.
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Rotary saw
A rotary saw, spiral cut saw, RotoZip or cut out tool is a type of mechanically powered saw used for making accurate cuts without the need for a pilot hole in wallboard, plywood, or another thin, solid material. Saw and rotary saw are saws.
Sabre saw
The sabre saw (also saber saw) is a hand-held powered reciprocating saw, like a jigsaw. Saw and sabre saw are saws.
Saw chain
The saw chain, or cutting chain, is a key component of a chainsaw. Saw and saw chain are saws.
Saw pit
A saw pit or sawpit is a pit over which timber is positioned to be sawed with a long two-handled saw, usually a whipsaw, by two people, one standing above the timber and the other below. Saw and saw pit are saws.
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Saw set
A saw set is a tool or part of the tool kit for tuning saw blades. Saw and saw set are saws.
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Sawgrass
Sawgrass may refer to.
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Sawmill
A sawmill (saw mill, saw-mill) or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber. Saw and sawmill are saws.
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A scroll saw is a small electric or pedal-operated saw used to cut intricate curves in wood, metal, or other materials. Saw and scroll saw are saws.
Sharpening
Sharpening is the process of creating or refining the edge joining two non-coplanar faces into a converging apex, thereby creating an edge of appropriate shape on a tool or implement designed for cutting.
A square is a tool used for marking and referencing a 90° angle, though mitre squares are used for 45° angles.
Steam
Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, often mixed with air and/or an aerosol of liquid water droplets.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.
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Sternal saw
A sternal saw is a bone cutter used to perform median sternotomy, opening the patient's chest by splitting the breastbone, or sternum. Saw and sternal saw are saws.
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.
Superhard material
A superhard material is a material with a hardness value exceeding 40 gigapascals (GPa) when measured by the Vickers hardness test.
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Table saw
A table saw (also known as a sawbench or bench saw in England) is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor (directly, by belt, by cable, or by gears). Saw and table saw are saws.
Talos (inventor)
In Greek mythology, Talos (Ancient Greek: Τάλως Talōs) was an Athenian inventor.
A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task.
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Tungsten carbide
Tungsten carbide (chemical formula: WC) is a chemical compound (specifically, a carbide) containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms.
Two-man saw
A two-man saw (known colloquially as a "misery whip") is a saw designed for use by two sawyers. Saw and two-man saw are saws.
Veneer saw
The veneer saw is a small double-edged tool for cutting thin hardwood veneer. Saw and veneer saw are saws.
Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
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Water jet cutter
A water jet cutter, also known as a water jet or waterjet, is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using an extremely high-pressure jet of water, or a mixture of water and an abrasive substance.
Whipsaw
A whipsaw or pitsaw was originally a type of saw used in a saw pit, and consisted of a narrow blade held rigid by a frame and called a frame saw or sash saw (see illustrations). Saw and whipsaw are saws.
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Wire saw
A wire saw is a saw that uses a metal wire or cable for mechanical cutting of bulk solid material such as stone, wood, glass, ferrites, concrete, metals, crystals etc.. Saw and wire saw are saws.
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Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
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Wood grain
Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers or the pattern resulting from such an arrangement.
Woodworking
Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.
Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw
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