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Definition of Sawlike
1. resembling a saw [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawlike
Literary usage of Sawlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"... but instead of being barbed they are provided with a sawlike edge at the tip.
In addition to these four piercing organs there is a fifth lancet, ..."
2. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"The latter also constitute a pair of slender lancets, equally sharp, but instead
of being barbed they are provided with a sawlike edge at the tip. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"... definitive character, but in tracing these organs through a series of older
larvae the gradual taking-on of the slender sawlike character is manifest. ..."
4. The Talisman by Walter Scott, Dwight Holbrook (1886)
"... but the rider easily raised him with band and rein. But for Conrade there was
no recovery. 1 Ser'-ra-ted: jagged, sawlike; from serra, Latin for saw. ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1870)
"This creature has a great appetite for hemp, and all the cables covered with that
fibre were found to be perfectly honeycombed by its sawlike teeth, ..."
6. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"It consists of a plate of steel with a sawlike or finely serrated edge, which is
dragged to and fro across the stone in a direction at right angles to its ..."
7. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"... but instead of being barbed they are provided with a sawlike edge at the tip.
In addition to these four piercing organs there is a fifth lancet, ..."
8. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"The latter also constitute a pair of slender lancets, equally sharp, but instead
of being barbed they are provided with a sawlike edge at the tip. ..."
9. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"... definitive character, but in tracing these organs through a series of older
larvae the gradual taking-on of the slender sawlike character is manifest. ..."
10. The Talisman by Walter Scott, Dwight Holbrook (1886)
"... but the rider easily raised him with band and rein. But for Conrade there was
no recovery. 1 Ser'-ra-ted: jagged, sawlike; from serra, Latin for saw. ..."
11. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1870)
"This creature has a great appetite for hemp, and all the cables covered with that
fibre were found to be perfectly honeycombed by its sawlike teeth, ..."
12. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"It consists of a plate of steel with a sawlike or finely serrated edge, which is
dragged to and fro across the stone in a direction at right angles to its ..."
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