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plain-saw

[pleyn-saw]

verb (used with object)

plain-sawed, plain-sawed, plain-sawn, plain-sawing. 

  1. to reduce (a squared log) to boards with evenly spaced parallel cuts; bastard-saw.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of plain-saw1

First recorded in 1950–55

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