A two-handled saw.

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1708.  The lightning was attracted by a cross-cut saw lying against the chimney.—Mass. Gazette, Aug. 25.

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1824.  

        With hair the color of a whisp of straw,
And a disposition like a cross-cut saw.
Somerset (Me.) Journal, Feb. 27: from the Providence Journal.    

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1824.  Two men with what is called a cross-cut saw (or a saw with two handles) will saw more wood, &c.—Mass. Yeoman, March 31: from the New England Farmer.

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