(a) A saw; also, injury inflicted with a saw [quot.: c1475]; (b) fig. & person. of (a); (c) in comparisons; (d) in cpds. & combs.: ~ of tre, tren ~, a wooden saw; ~ pit, a pit over which a framework was built to enable two men, one above the ground and the other in the pit, to saw timber with a two-handled saw, a sawpit; honde ~, a handsaw; maister de la ~, ?a master carpenter; named ~, a previously mentioned saw; thwert ~, a crosscut saw; (e) some kind of serrated threshing instrument; (f) a line of troops projecting in some manner in front of a battle line; (g) med. a serrate connection between bones; (h) in surname and place name.