buzz saw
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.
noun
A type of noisemaker in the form of a spinning disc spun on an untwisting string like a whirligig.
Example Sentences
- "The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest."
- "The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood"
- "A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle."
- "[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."