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Saw is a related term of sunder.


As a preposition sunder is

without.

saw

English

(wikipedia saw)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sawe, from (etyl) saga, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal
  • A musical saw.
  • A sawtooth wave.
    • Derived terms
    * backsaw * band saw, bandsaw * buzz saw * chainsaw * chop saw * circular saw * coping saw * crosscut saw * fretsaw * hacksaw * handsaw * hole saw * Japanese-style handsaw * jigsaw * miter saw, mitre saw * power saw * razor-tooth saw * reciprocating saw * rift saw * rip saw * sawbones * sawhorse * sawtooth * scroll saw * table saw * tenon saw

    Verb

  • To cut (something) with a saw.
  • To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
    • The fiddler sawed away at his instrument.
  • To be cut with a saw.
    • The timber saws smoothly.
  • To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
    • to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)
    to saw''' shingles; to '''saw out a panel
    Related terms
    * saw wood

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) sawe, from (etyl) sagu, . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
  • *, Bk.V:
  • *:And for thy trew sawys , and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid.
  • (often old saw ) A saying or proverb.
  • (label) Opinion, idea, belief; by thy ~, in your opinion; commune ~, common opinion; common knowledge; on no ~, by no means.
  • *Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden
  • *:Þe more comoun sawe is þat Remus was i-slawe for he leep ouer þe newe walles of Rome.
  • (label) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
  • *Earl of Toulouse
  • *:All they assentyd to the sawe ; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
  • (label) Dictate; command; decree.
  • *Spenser
  • *:[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw .
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 3

    See see . Cognate with Dutch zag, German sah, Danish .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (see)

    • Statistics

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    * * English irregular simple past forms English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    sunder

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
    • Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at sundry.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
  • To , separate.
    • {{quote-book
    , year=2003 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Dean Barton , title=Searching for the Evergreen Man , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Llumina Press , isbn=9781932047233 , page=69 , passage=… Carlo finally saw Everything, before it sunders' into things; he saw Knowledge before it '''sunders''' into knowing; he saw Integrity before it '''sunders''' in integrals; he saw Unity before it ' sunders into units. }}
  • (UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
    • (Halliwell)
    Quotations
    * 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.
    Derived terms
    * asunder * sunderance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a separation into parts; a division or severance
  • * 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
    • He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
    I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
    And went with half my life about my ways.

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