noun
Meaning 1
A saw small enough to be used by one hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
handsaw
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A heron.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a saw used with one hand for cutting wood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hand saw, carpenter's saw
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: saw
Narrower terms: backsaw, back saw, compass saw, coping saw, crosscut saw, crosscut handsaw, cutoff saw, keyhole saw, pruning saw, ripsaw, splitsaw
History
Etymology
From Middle English handsawe, handsagh, equivalent to hand + saw. Cognate with West Frisian hânseage (“handsaw”), Dutch handzaag (“handsaw”), German Handsäge (“handsaw”), Danish håndsav (“handsaw”), Swedish handsåg (“handsaw”), Icelandic handsög (“handsaw”).
Corruption of heronshaw.
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: handsaag — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Albanian: sharrë dore — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Azerbaijani: əl bıçqısı — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Azerbaijani: əl mişarı — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Azerbaijani: xırxı — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Belarusian: нажо́ўка (nažówka) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Bulgarian: ръчен трион (rǎčen trion) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Catalan: xerrac — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Chinese Mandarin: 手鋸 /手锯 (shǒujù) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Czech: viděl — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Czech: ruční pila — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Dutch: handzaag — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Estonian: käsisaag — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Estonian: vukssaag — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Finnish: käsisaha — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- French: égoïne — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- French: scie à main — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- French: scie égoïne — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Galician: serrón — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Georgian: ხელის ხერხი (xelis xerxi) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- German: Fuchsschwanz — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- German: Handsäge — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Hindi: आरी (ārī) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Hungarian: fűrész — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Indonesian: gergaji — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Irish: sábh láimhe — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Italian: saracco — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Japanese: 手びきのこ (tebikinoko) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Japanese: 手のこぎり (tenokogiri) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Malay: gergaji — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Norwegian Bokmål: håndsag — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Norwegian Bokmål: handsag — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Norwegian Nynorsk: handsag — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Persian: دستره (dastare) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Persian: دست اره (dast-arre) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Polish: piła — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Portuguese: serrote — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Romanian: fierăstrău de mână — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Russian: ножо́вка (nožóvka) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Russian: ручна́я пила́ (ručnája pilá) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Serbo-Croatian: тестера — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Serbo-Croatian: testera — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Spanish: serrucho — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Swedish: fogsvans — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Swedish: handsåg — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Tagalog: nakakita — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Tagalog: nakita — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Thai: ปื้น (bpeuun) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Turkish: testere — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Turkish: destere — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Ottoman Turkish: دستره (destere) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Ukrainian: ножі́вка (nožívka) — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Uzbek: qoʻllarra — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Vietnamese: cưa tay — saw small enough to be used by one hand
- Welsh: llawlif — saw small enough to be used by one hand