bucksaw

A bucksaw is also a form of the crosscut saw.

A Bucksaw is a hand saw generally used to cut logs or firewood to length (bucking).

The chairlift, Bucksaw (which is still in use in most of its original state), carried 945 passengers per hour up 1,200 vertical feet and over a mile.

He stroked a lean chin with a big mobile hand that suggested more of bridle holding than familiarity with a bucksaw and plow handle.

Workers were paid from $1.75 to $2.00 per cord (48 to 55 cent/m3) of pit-props, using a bucksaw for 12 hours per day.

Hide traded for three very fine bucksaw blades, an ax, five pounds of steel rod, and two metal-files, also very fine."

"Hey, Professor," Lou said to Stan as we came into camp, "you want to bring that bucksaw over here and square off the ends of this thing?"

But in Washington County, the crosscut saw was the main tool for logging, while for cutting fuelwood, the homemade bucksaw was mostly used.

The ship would tilt, the propellers would catch and the vessel would rise up and over again in a bucksaw motion that went on for several minutes.

The name Munxar is from the Maltese language; the English translation is "bucksaw" -the teeth of the saw are represented in the village flag.

West Mountain is serviced by the West Mountain Chair, and the Bucksaw Chair (Sugarloaf's first chairlift).

The tools were in a building out back: crosscut saws, a potato planter, a bucksaw, a cider press, a bone grater, a treadmill, a work sled, a festive red sleigh.

Shaftoe unfolds it and examines its various parts while Privates Nathan and Branph dismember Frosty the Pig with vigorous strokes of an enormous bucksaw.

"Slim," he said to Jack, "you and the Professor and the Kid there take these two axes and that bucksaw and go down into that grove of spruce below the corrals.

The first records that were found recording Munxar as an area dates back to the sixteenth century when the area was named Monxiar, which means a bucksaw, taking its name from the two valleys running parallel from the village.

Commander Eden's drunkenness is also kind of disturbing-not the fact that he is drunk, but the particular type of drunk-the sort of drunk of say, a Civil War soldier who knows that the surgeon is about to remove his femur with a bucksaw.