Any of various tools, either hand-operated or power-driven, having a thin metal blade or disk with a sharp, usually toothed edge, used for cutting wood, metal, or other hard materials, A saw-blade together with the handles or frame to which the blade is attached, as a hand-saw, wood-saw, or hack-saw, a disk of steel with saw teeth upon its periphery, and revolved on an arbor, intransitive verb_ To use a saw; to practice sawing, To cut, as a saw, transitive verb_ To cut with a saw; to separate with a saw, To form by cutting with a saw, Also used figuratively