ripsaw

See also: rip saw

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Etymology

From rip +‎ saw.

Noun

ripsaw (countable and uncountable, plural ripsaws)

  1. (woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
    • 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), pages 4-5:
      A ripsaw will slice smoothly along the grain, but chew up the wood if it goes against the grain.
  2. (uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.

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ripsaw (third-person singular simple present ripsaws, present participle ripsawing, simple past and past participle ripsawed)

  1. To cut with a ripsaw.

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