verbWord forms: -saws, -sawing, -sawed, -sawed or -sawn(transitive)
2.
to saw with a whipsaw
3. US
to defeat in two ways at once
whipsaw in American English
(ˈhwɪpˌsɔ; ˈwɪpˌsɔ)
noun
1.
any of several long-bladed saws; esp., a crosscut saw with a tapering blade, from 5 to 71⁄2 feet long and with a handle at each end, used usually by two persons
verb transitive US
2.
to cut with a whipsaw
3.
to defeat or get the best of (a person) two ways at once, as, in faro, by winning two different bets in a single play