Definition of Saw set

1. Noun. A tool used to bend each alternate sawtooth at a slight angle outward.

Generic synonyms: Tool

Definition of Saw set

1. Noun. A device used to sharpen the teeth of a hand saw and adjust their set (the amount each tooth protrudes to the side of the saw to create the kerf). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saw Set

saw-toothed
saw-whet
saw-wort
saw buck
saw fit
saw in
saw log
saw logs
saw off
saw palmetto
saw sam sai
saw set (current term)
saw sets
saw through
saw tooth
saw wood
sawah
sawahs
sawbellies
sawbelly
sawbench
sawbenches
sawbill
sawbills
sawblade
sawblades

Literary usage of Saw set

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handwork in Wood by William Noyes (1910)
"For this purpose a saw- set, Fig. 98, is necessary. ... Saw-Set. tooth, 1st, 3d, 5th, etc., is filed, and then the saw is reversed and the other set, ..."

2. Manual Training Magazine (1914)
"28 Triumph saw set is so made that one can get an even set on the teeth by maintaining the correct position of the saw set relative to the saw blade. ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"The disk b of the saw set, Fig. 6?, is then turned so that the number ... The saw set is then placed over the teeth so that the frame a rests upon them at A ..."

4. Farm Woodwork by Louis Michael Roehl (1919)
"1 saw set. Several flat files. The essential features of a well fitted saw ... This consists of placing the saw set on a tooth and pressing the tooth out so ..."

5. Who Burnt Columbia?: Official Depositions of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman and Gen. O by William Tecumseh Sherman, Oliver Otis Howard (1873)
"The place I saw set on fire was set on fire by soldiers wearing the uniform of United States soldiers. This was on the 17th February, 1865. ..."

6. Repressive Legislation of the Republic of South Africa by Elizabeth S. Landis, United Nations Unit on Apartheid (1917)
"For hand and back saws, a saw set that acts on the principle of the hammer ... A saw set, of the kind shown in Fig. 16, can be adjusted to set the points of ..."

7. ...Elements of Woodwork by Charles Albert King (1911)
"This may be done by a saw set, of which there are several patterns in use; ... HAND saw set. A saw to be used upon green lumber should have coarser teeth ..."

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