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handsaw

/hand-saw/US // ˈhændˌsɔ //UK // (ˈhændˌsɔː) //

手锯,手动锯,手电筒,双手锯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any common saw with a handle at one end for manual operation with one hand.

Examples

  • I will kill your parents, cut them to pieces with a handsaw, do you f--king understand me?

  • I know a hawk from a handsaw if I was born and bred in the backwoods.

  • Carpenter, bring me yer handsaw, an' jist sharpen her up while I'm disrobin' my graceful form.'

  • Should he be driven aloft, there "to banquet on the morning," he were better reposing on a gridiron or sitting astride a handsaw.

  • He reminded me in and out of Horace Greeley, although they looked no more alike than a hawk and a handsaw.

  • To know a hawk from a hernshaw is an ancient proverb, sometimes corrupted into handsaw.