saw-toothed

See also: sawtoothed

English

Adjective

saw-toothed (not comparable)

1. Having a jagged edge like a saw.
   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, chapter 5, in Purchas his Pilgrimes‎^[1], volume 1, book 2, London: Henry Fetherstone, page 79:

     But afterwards three of their Companie were slaine, who in seeking food for life, found death at the hand of naked Sauages, whose weapons were Saw-toothed Darts, which if they entred, must be cut out of the flesh.

   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 5, in Two Years Ago‎^[2], volume 3, Cambridge: Macmillan, page 135:

     […] everywhere between the poplar stems the saw-toothed outline of the western forts cuts the blue sky.

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 17, in The Dain Curse, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 149:

     Craning our necks, we could see that what we had taken for the shore-line on that side was actually a high, thin, saw-toothed ledge of rock […]

   • 1961 January, G. H. Robin, “Resorts for Railfans - 32: Ayr”, in Trains Illustrated, page 49:

     To the south the landscape changes and the gradient profile immediately becomes saw-toothed, as the line rises and falls with the rolling undulations of this rich farming countryside; [...].

   • 1982, Bernard Malamud, “The Flood”, in God’s Grace‎^[3], New York: Avon, published 1983, page 31:

     Hours later, having brought in the yellow raft laden with supplies to the green shore, then hidden them in the saw-toothed tall grass, an exhausted Cohn followed Buz into the forest.

Synonyms

• saw-tooth
• jaggy, serrated; see also Thesaurus:notched

Translations

having a jagged edge like a saw

• Bulgarian: назъбен (bg) (nazǎben), трионовиден (trionoviden)
• Finnish: sahalaitainen (fi), sahahampainen
• Greek:

  Ancient: καρχαρόδους (karkharódous)

• Romanian: ferestruit (ro), fierăstruit