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resaw1
verbresaw (third-person singular simple present resaws, present participle resawing, simple past resawed, past participle resawn)
present singular third person resaws · participle present resawing · past resawed · participle past resawn
- transitiveTo saw again or anew, as with, especially, recutting (remilling) lumber by remaking boards into thinner boards.
For instance, the old Sears building in Chicago was built with wood trusses; we get beams like that and resaw them to make flooring.
2007 November 15, Tim Mckeough, “Room to Improve”, in New York Times
resaw2
verb
- pastsimple past of resee
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resaw. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resaw
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“resaw.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resaw. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resaw,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resaw.
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