sawn-off

adjective

prenominal (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
informal.
(of a person) small in stature

It was triangular, a piece of sawn-off wood, brown with age and ragged.

And he knocked with his stick a little piece of sawn-off board that lay beside the rushing water.

This is the last compartment, right in the nose; a sawn-off cone-shape.

There were six in all, but rather more than that number of shadowy objects had appeared unexpectedly among the sawn-off stumps.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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