chain saw

noun

chain-saw

or chain·saw

[ cheyn-saw ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

chain saw

a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

First recorded in 1955–60

A woman in Georgia wrote to the owner of Coney Market asking him to buy her a couple of chain saws for her farm.

A gold-clad Pinocchio sculpture by Hubert Le Gall seems to have severed its own nose with a chain saw.

I think violence is such a part of him—in the way that he was watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre before school as a kid.

The headlines were gruesome: after shooting and killing him, she had used a chain saw to dismember his body.

A neighbor also told police that Gerhartsreiter borrowed his chain saw and returned it in the spring of 1985.

So we need more pressure on AQAP, but with a scalpel, not a chain saw.

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