rift-saw
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of rift saw.
Example Sentences
- "All material should be rift-sawed in so far as possible but flat-sawed lumber is acceptable up to 33 1/3 per cent of the board- foot contents of a shipment when necessary to utilize all the material in the log or cant that is of the required quality."
- "The mill's second major difference is that it rift-saws and quarter-saws the majority of its wood."
- "However, they are also rift-sawed or quarter-sawed, which means that the saw cut is radial, as shown in B, Fig.1."