buzz saw

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A buzz saw

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buzz saw (plural buzz saws)

  1. A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.
    Synonym: circular saw
    • 1905, Henry Adams, chapter 12, in The Education of Henry Adams:
      The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.
    • 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, “Tick, Buzz, It's That Time Again Locusts?”, in 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”, in 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.
  2. A type of noisemaker in the form of a spinning disc spun on an untwisting string like a whirligig.

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  • “buzz saw”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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