saw wood

present singular third person saws wood · participle present sawing wood · past sawed wood · participle past sawed wood · participle past sawn wood

1. idiomaticTo snore loudly.

   "You keep all of Mouse Lodge awake sawing wood every night. You're a fine one to complain about someone else snoring."

   2009, Elizabeth Haydon, The Dragon's Lair, →ISBN, page 125

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   Monsignor Charles Kekumano, 78, was snoring loudly in his bed. Every so often, he would stop sawing wood—and break into the delightfully mischievous grin that made him so famous.

   1998 January 23, Diane Chang, “Monsignor Kekumano is now in heaven”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin

   Synonyms: saw logs