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A handtool consisting of a blade set across an upright frame or bow, used with both hands in cutting wood on supports.

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Usage examples (10)
  • In another moment he would have knocked at the kitchen door, but the skreek of a bucksaw from the woodshed led him aside.
  • Using a bucksaw is not only a thankless job at any time, but it is no saving of time or money.
  • I started splitting and Joan grabbed a bucksaw and started cutting blocks off an eight foot log.
  • At Agatha's house he hears a bucksaw noise from a woodshed and asks the boy there if his father is home.
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