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The original argument between human ambition and a tree that refuses to lie down.
means The act of cutting through wood, bone, or other material with a saw, using a repeated back-and-forth motion.
from From the verb "saw," which descends from Old English "sagu" (a saw), rooted in a Proto-Germanic word related to Old Norse "sǫg" and German "Säge." The deeper ancestor is a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cut," possibly the same family that gives us "section" and "scythe" — all words for things that part what was once whole. The "-ing" simply turns the tool's name into the ongoing struggle of using it.
- two motions
- Western saws cut on the push, Japanese on the pull
- sound trick
- A flexed handsaw plays eerie music with a violin bow
- ancient tool
- Egyptians sawed stone with copper blades and abrasive sand
- set matters
- Teeth bend outward so the blade won't jam
- magic illusion
- Sawing a woman in half debuted in 1921
honshu-hokkaido bridge sawing — japan's seikan tunnel underwater breakthrough in 1985 used massive boring and sawing equipment to cut through 140 meters of rock
lady diana statue saw — spencer family had diana's bronze statue sawed and repositioned in 2021 at althorp house after initial placement complaints
redwood tree sawing records — humboldt county california holds records for largest trees sawed, including 2,520-year-old specimens up to 26 feet in diameter