handsaw

I will kill your parents, cut them to pieces with a handsaw, do you f--king understand me?

I know a hawk from a handsaw if I was born and bred in the backwoods.

Carpenter, bring me yer handsaw, an' jist sharpen her up while I'm disrobin' my graceful form.'

Should he be driven aloft, there "to banquet on the morning," he were better reposing on a gridiron or sitting astride a handsaw.

He reminded me in and out of Horace Greeley, although they looked no more alike than a hawk and a handsaw.

To know a hawk from a hernshaw is an ancient proverb, sometimes corrupted into handsaw.