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ˈhand-saw
A saw managed by one hand.
1411Nottingham Rec. II. 86, j hondsawe. 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 324 Also for an handesaw price vjd. 1573–80Baret Alv. H 78 A hand sawe..vne scietie, ou petite scie. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv, 187 My Buckler cut through and through, my Sword hackt like a Hand-saw. 1664Cotton Scarron. Pref. (D.), 'Tis all the world to a handsaw but these barbarous Rascals would be so ill-manner'd as to laugh at us as confidently as we do at them. 1798Greville in Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 413 A stone⁓cutter was sawing rock crystal with a hand-saw. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hand-saw, the smallest of the saws used by shipwrights, and used by one hand.
b. In the following, handsaw is generally explained as a corruption of heronshaw or hernsew, dial. harnsa, heron. (Other conjectures taking hawk in a different sense from the bird have also been made.) No other instances of the phrase, (except as quotations from Shakespeare), have been found.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 367, I am but mad North, North-West: when the Winde is Southerly, I know a Hawke from a Handsaw. |