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buzz saw

noun

  1. a power-operated circular saw, so named because of the noise it makes.


buzz saw

noun

  1. a power-operated circular saw
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of buzz saw1

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Example Sentences

More so than any of his predecessors, Obama ran open-eyed into the Palestinian-Israeli buzz saw.

Reihan Salam says we're heading into a decade-long economic buzz saw.

He was cruising along just fine until he hit the immigration buzz saw and it instantly shredded him.

The furnace was propelled by water and they had a small buzz saw for cutting four-foot wood into blocks about a foot long.

The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.

Well, whatever you do, keep away from the big buzz saw, he warned.

From somewhere overhead came a sound like a snarl of a buzz-saw as it bites into hard wood.

It soon got its fill and curled up and purred "just like a fairy buzz-saw," Dum declared.

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