saw

I

n

1. cutting tool, handsaw, hacksaw, circular saw, band saw, keyhole saw, butcher's saw, lumberman's saw.

v

2. cut, divide, sever, dissever; split, rend, sunder, dispart, cleave, rive; bisect, halve, quarter, intersect; subdivide, compart, partition, repartition, demarcate.

II

n

old saying, saying, sententious saying, pithy statement; maxim, aphorism, apothegm, gnome, mot; proverb, axiom, precept, prescript, dictum, epigram, adage; witticism, Fr. jeu d'esprit. quip, Atticism; cliche1, hackneyed phrase, platitude, truism, Inf. bromide, commonplace; byword, slogan, motto, catchword, catch phrase, Sl. catchy phrase, doggerel verse.