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Definition of Sawn-off
1. Adjective. Well below average height.
Language type: Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Similar to: Little, Short
Derivative terms: Runt, Runtiness
2. Adjective. Cut short. "The shortened rope was easier to use"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawn-off
Literary usage of Sawn-off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The heads of the piles are sawn off, and a platform of timber or concrete rests
on them. Cast iron and concrete reinforced piles are now used ..."
2. A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints by Astley Cooper, Bransby Blake Cooper (1851)
"... was admitted into the Worcester Infirmary, under Mr. Sandford, with compound
dislocation of the ankle; the protruding portion of the tibia was sawn off, ..."
3. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"... secondly, those in which the cartilages were removed ; thirdly, those in which
the condyles in part, one or both, were sawn off: and, fourthly, ..."
4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1885)
"The upper ends of tibia and fibula sawn off, and then the end of the 'emur was
exposed (by bending the leg at right angles) and sawn off. ..."
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