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Meaning of buzz saw | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A powerful, noisy, motorized saw, typically having a rotary blade with large teeth, sometimes portable and sometimes mounted into a table.
  2. A type of noisemaker in the form of a spinning disc spun on an untwisting string like a whirligig.

Examples

“The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest.”
“The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood”
“A population in full song can exceed 100 decibels, roughly the level of a circular buzz saw at full throttle.”
“[T]hree inmates were freed today by accomplices who descended on a prison in central France in a helicopter, then used a buzz saw to rip through security netting.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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