buzz saw
Noun
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Noun
buzz saw (plural buzz saws)
- A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.
- 1916, Robert Frost, "Out, Out–":
- The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
- And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood
- 1987 May 25, David Brand, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,146726,00.html Tick, Buzz, It's That Time Again Locusts?]," Time (retrieved 27 May 2014):
- A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle.
- 2003 April 14, John Tagliabue, "Another Daring Jailbreak Embarrasses French Government ↗," New York Times (retrieved 27 May 2014):
- [T]hree inmates were freed today by accomplices who descended on a prison in central France in a helicopter, then used a buzz saw to rip through security netting.
- 1916, Robert Frost, "Out, Out–":
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