bandsaw

See also: band-saw, and band saw

English

Alternative forms

• band saw
• band-saw

Etymology

From band ‎ saw.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

A bandsaw.

Bandsaw blades

bandsaw (plural bandsaws)

1. A powered saw whose blade is a continuous band of metal with teeth along one edge.
   • 2007 January 7, Tim Moran, “Sliced, Diced and Polished to Perfection, Cutaway Displays Reveal All”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Their work is more cerebral than the careful placement of an engine block — or an entire car — on a bandsaw.

Translations

a saw whose blade is a continuous band

• Bulgarian: банциг (bancig)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帶鋸／带锯 (zh) (dàijù)

• Dutch: lintzaag (nl)
• Finnish: vannesaha (fi)
• French: scie à ruban (fr)
• Galician: serra de cinta f
• German: Bandsäge (de) f
• Italian: sega a nastro f
• Japanese: 帯鋸 (おびのこ, obinoko), コンターマシン (kontā mashin), バンドソー (bando sō)
• Maori: kani koropewa
• Portuguese: serra de fita f
• Russian: ле́нточная пила́ f (léntočnaja pilá)
• Spanish: sierra de cinta f
• Swedish: bandsåg (sv) c
• Turkish: şerit testere

Verb

bandsaw (third-person singular simple present bandsaws, present participle bandsawing, simple past bandsawed, past participle bandsawn)

1. (transitive) To cut with a bandsaw.

Anagrams

• wasband