ˈthwart-saw Now dial.
Forms: see thwart.
A saw for sawing timber across; a cross-cut saw.
| 1404 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 396, iij sawes irined ex officio, et iij twhertsawes, ij handsawes. 1465 Finchale Invent. (Surtees) p. ccxcix, In primis,..j twortsaw, j twybyll, j hak, j pyk. 1567 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 268 A whippt sawe, ij hand sawes, a twart sawe. 1577 Ibid. 414 In the Ireon Seller. Eighte qwarte sawes xvjs.—thre whope sawes xxs. 1590 Inv. in Midl. Co. Hist. Coll. II. 31 Item iij wimbles a handsawe one whartsawe. 1611–12 Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) II. 34 My thwartsaw. 1888 Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Thurt saw,..cross-cut saw... ‘Plase to tich up (sharpen) the thurt saw’. |