whipsaw 的 3 个定义
- a saw for two persons, as a pitsaw, used to divide timbers lengthwise.
whip·sawed, whip·sawed or whip·sawn, whip·saw·ing.
- to cut with a whipsaw.
- to win two bets from at one turn or play, as at faro.
- to subject to two opposing forces at the same time: The real-estate market has been whipsawed by high interest rates and unemployment.
whip·sawed, whip·sawed or whip·sawn, whip·saw·ing.
- to swing suddenly to the right or left, as in rounding a sharp curve at high speed.
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- It also had a vast array of captive food-processing enterprises that easily enabled the New York-based company to undercut its small-town competition and whipsaw grocery wholesalers.
- The whipsaw can and does go up with almost as much speed as it goes down—recall the snap back from the lows of March of 2009.
- To get there, towing charges and tolls would eat up your profits, and old Hughson would whipsaw you, anyway.
- Then the Indian brings over a whipsaw from the cabin at Surprise Lake and makes lumber enough for the box.
- Try as she would, she could not get them out, and then she remembered that Hastings kept a whipsaw in a shed close by.
- We sawed our boards with the whipsaw, and made our shingles out of the ash-trees.
- Here, by hand, with an inadequate whipsaw, they sawed the spruce-trunks into lumber.