English
Etymology
From hack + saw. Attested since 1867.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
hacksaw (plural hacksaws)
- A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal
Translations
saw
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: մետաղասղոց (hy) (metaġasġocʻ)
- Bulgarian: ножовка f (nožovka)
- Catalan: serra de metalls f, serra d'arc f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鋼鋸 / 钢锯 (zh) (gāngjù)
- Dutch: beugelzaag (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: metalsegilo
- Finnish: rautasaha (fi), metallisaha
- French: scie à métaux (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Bügelsäge (de) f
- Greek: σιδηροπρίονο (el) n (sidiropríono)
- Hungarian: fémfűrész (hu)
- Italian: sega ad arco f, sega ad arco per metallo, seghetto ad arco m, seghetto per metalli m
- Japanese: 弓のこ (ゆみのこ, yuminoko)
- Khmer: រណារអារដែក (rɔnaa ’aa daek)
- Korean: 쇠톱 (soetop)
- Macedonian: бонсек m (bonsek)
- Plautdietsch: Iesasoag f
- Polish: piła do metalu f, piłka do metalu (pl) f
- Portuguese: arco de serra f, segueta (pt) f
- Romanian: bomfaier (ro)
- Russian: ножо́вка по мета́ллу f (nožóvka po metállu), слеса́рная ножо́вка f (slesárnaja nožóvka)
- Spanish: sierra para metales f, sierra (es) f, sierra de arco f, segueta (es) f (marquetry), serrón f
- Swedish: bågfil (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
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Verb
hacksaw (third-person singular simple present hacksaws, present participle hacksawing, simple past hacksawed, past participle hacksawed or hacksawn)
- To cut with a hacksaw.
This bolt is so rusted I'll have to hacksaw it off.
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