: a fine-tooth saw with a blade under tension in a frame that is used for cutting hard materials (such as metal)
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Sauls confirms the hacksaw kill — where Art sawed someone in half from her nether regions — will appear, along with new kills that resulted from working with director Damien Leone.—EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025 But this was not enough to protect the measures from the hacksaw the Trump administration has taken to the green transition.—Nils Kupzok, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2025 Musk has been at the center of Trump’s hacksaw to the federal government this week.—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 5 Feb. 2025 Almost all of them are unmanned, and cutting a cord can be as simple as severing it from the station with a hacksaw.—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hacksaw
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