fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

saw used with one hand for cutting metal

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

a feeling of anger and animosity

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

A tool used for making incisions in trees as channels for the passage of the sap; a hack, Something which hacks, a tool or device for hacking, a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm

To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows, To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization, To chop or cut something by hacking, noun_ A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking, A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney, A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing, adjective_ By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing, Hackneyed; banal

metal shackles connected by chains, used to bind hands or legs, Plural form of chain, metal shackles; for hands or legs,

A connected, flexible series of links, typically of metal, used especially for holding objects together, for restraining, or for transmitting mechanical power, Bonds, fetters, or shackles, a boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc,

Tedious or hackneyed language, especially when used sanctimoniously, The special vocabulary peculiar to the members of an underworld group; argot, A whining or singing manner of speech; specifically, the whining speech of beggars, as in asking alms