A buzz saw
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buzz saw (plural buzz saws )
A powerful , noisy , motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.
1905 , Henry Adams , chapter 12, in The Education of Henry Adams :The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.
1916 , Robert Frost , Out, Out– :The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood
1987 May 25, David Brand, “Tick, Buzz, It's That Time Again Locusts? ”, in Time , retrieved 27 May 2014 :A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle.
2003 April 14, John Tagliabue, “Another Daring Jailbreak Embarrasses French Government ”, in New York Times , retrieved 27 May 2014 :[T]hree inmates were freed today by accomplices who descended on a prison in central France in a helicopter, then used a buzz saw to rip through security netting.
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“buzz saw ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .