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Pawing vs Sawing - What's the difference?

pawing | sawing |

As verbs the difference between pawing and sawing

is that pawing is present participle of paw while sawing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between pawing and sawing

is that pawing is the act of one who paws while sawing is a shaving or fragment of sawn material.

pawing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who paws.
  • * 1946 , Mazo de la Roche, Return to Jalna
    • Firelight could be seen reflected on the ceiling of the drawing-room. Inside the deep stone porch, the heavy door was scarred by the pawings of many generations of dogs.

    sawing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mostly, plural) A shaving or fragment of sawn material.
  • * 1892 , The Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry (volume 6, page 388)
    • We find that from a sample of sawings of the usual size a button or small bar fairly representing the sample can be cast from about 2,000 grains.