Usually means: Tool for cutting through materials.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word saw:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. saw: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. saw, saw, saw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. saw, saw, saw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. saw: Collins English Dictionary
  5. saw: Vocabulary.com
  6. Saw, saw: Wordnik
  7. saw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SAW, Saw, saw: Wiktionary
  9. saw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. saw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. saw: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. saw: Dictionary.com
  13. saw (1), saw (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. saw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SAW, Saw (disambiguation), Saw (film), Saw (film series), Saw (franchise), Saw (movie), Saw (saying), Saw (series), Saw (soundtrack), Saw (video game), Saw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Saw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. saw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. saw: Rhymezone
  19. saw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. saw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SAW: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Saw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. saw: Free Dictionary
  24. saw: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. saw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. saw: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. saw: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. saw: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Saw (disambiguation), saw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Saw (disambiguation), saw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SAW: Acronym Finder
  3. SAW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. saw: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Saw: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. saw: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAW (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. saw, saw, saw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. S.A.W: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAW: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See sawed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
noun:  Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
noun:  A musical saw.
noun:  A sawtooth wave.
noun:  (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
verb:  (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
verb:  (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
verb:  (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
noun:  (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
noun:  (archaic) A saying or proverb.
noun:  (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.
noun:  (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
noun:  (obsolete) Dictate; command; decree.
noun:  (military, US) A squad automatic weapon or section automatic weapon, a kind of light machine gun.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (slang, African-American Vernacular) A Bahamian.
noun:  (physics) Initialism of surface acoustic wave.

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