whipsaw
鞭子,鞭打,鞭挞,鞭炮声
Definitions
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- : a saw for two persons, as a pitsaw, used to divide timbers lengthwise.
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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.
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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.
Examples
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.