sawn

Divided by teeth

Sawn is the past participle of saw, used mainly in British English where Americans would say sawed: sawn timber, sawn-off shotgun.

The form appears most often as an adjective describing wood or metal that has been cut with a saw: freshly sawn boards.

construction

joist

Horizontal structural beam

  • trussLoad-bearing beam arrangement
  • rafterSloped roof support
  • studsStructural wall timbers

beam · decking · plywood · sheathing · lumber · timber · framing · boards · planks · dimensional

carpentry

joinery

Fitting wood pieces together

craftsmanship · mortise · tenon · dovetail · chisel · plane · workbench · clamps · sanding · lumber

texture

edge

Boundary or sharpness

  • roughUneven in surface
  • smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
  • kerfIncision from a blade

splinter · grain · surface · ragged · clean · straight · angled · beveled · mitered · jagged

cutting

sliced

Divided by cutting

cut · halved · sectioned · divided · crosscut · ripped · notched · grooved · trimmed · shortened

residue

sawdust

Powdery timber waste

dust · debris · waste · offcuts · scraps · mulch · powder · fibers

Categories
Opposites
processing state

sawnwhole

Full and undivided

uncut · intact · raw · rough · unprocessed

Phrases
Family

saw, saws, sawing, jigsaw, sawed, chainsaw, jigsaws, hacksaw, chainsaws

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G