scroll saw

noun

a narrow saw mounted vertically in a frame and operated with an up-and-down motion, used for cutting curved ornamental designs.
such a saw mounted in a power-driven machine.

scroll saw

First recorded in 1850–55

A foot-power scroll-saw and saws, for a self-inking printing-press and furniture in good working order.

The curves at the rear end of the rudder can be sawed best with a scroll saw.

A boy who has a scroll-saw may earn a little income for himself, if he is industrious, in his play-time.

So he went back to the white canoe, and paddled away up the river, and nobody in Scroll-Saw City ever set eyes on him again.

A new Rogers scroll-saw (foot-power), for a good bow and arrows, or a stamp collection.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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