All the woodwork for this I got ready sawn and "dipped" from a well-known factory at Croydon.
Except the pine tree which we had cut down and sawn up, as related already, there was not a foot of sawn lumber in the settlement, and scarcely a hammer or a nail either, but what we possessed ourselves.
We were accommodated with stools of various sizes and heights, on three legs or on four, or mere pieces of log sawn short off, which latter our host justly recommended as being more steady on the uneven floor.
All the branches having been cleared off as thoroughly as possible, the entire tree was drawn out by those most patient of all patient drudges, the oxen, and when on solid ground, sawn to the required length.
An area of several acres of level greensward was enclosed within a fence, perhaps eight or ten feet high, formed of sawn battens, on which was stretched the coarse sacking known to drapers as 'osnaberg.
Fences were cut, bridges sawn through, stock were injured, squatters and free labourers were assaulted or grossly reviled.
A longitudinal groove is sawn in the top of the bed, as indicated by the dotted line in Fig.
The other side having been treated in like manner, any spare wood at the top is sawn off.
The projections aresawn off roughly and planed down flush with the top.
In one bog in Yorkshire pine trees were found sawn across and left to lie and rot.
Our fir wood comes in great quantities from Norway and Germany, where it is first cut and sawn into planks.
Sometimes while they wait the tree is cut down and then they are either sawn in two or left inside the plank.
Soon the flames were licking up my initial work, and I proceeded to pile on hedge trimmings, the sweepings-up of an apple-tree that had blown down and been sawn up—and how sweet they made the air!
This giant, that leans against the outside wall, with no possibility of ever getting inside the door until it has been sawn in half, is a big fir (where a squirrel nested) that heeled right over in a blizzard.
The queen next ordered the sawn trunk of a cedar tree to be brought, and she asked Solomon to point out at which end the root had been and at which the branches.
Viollet-le-Duc calls it, be left standing when the Calvary of the poor at Amiens is cast down and sawn in pieces?
They must first be perfectly dried before the fire, or in the sun, and then a thin slice must be sawn (or cut with a powerful knife) out of the middle.
The curved handle of the stick should be sawn off as soon as possible; it frequently catches in the pockets of the sweeper, causing a jerk to the net, and dispersal of its contents.
At the neck of this basin the lumberers raised a temporary barrier with the refuse of their sawn logs.
We had no common boards left, and it would have cost much more to have had new ones sawn than to use even the most expensive that we had ready, besides throwing the work weeks backward.
He afterwards had a square patch, with the hole that the creature had made, sawn out of the bottom of the canoe, that he might keep it as a souvenir.
Is it all freshly cut, or are there some last year's logs, or even some of the year before last, which have had their ends sawn off to make them look new?
I say that you have been using loopers, or else bullets that were sawn in quarters and glued or tied with thread.
When sawn across, they show veins of calc-spar traversing the siliceous clay, and are then sometimes placed in the cabinets of virtuosi.
In this, it will be seen that by way of variety the tops of the staves have been sawn to a zig-zag line, which is followed a little below by a moulding of split rods.
The tops of these wall-pieces are sawn obliquely to fit against the round wall-plates to which they are nailed.
The twigs should be sawn so that in section they are less than a semicircle, and it will be an advantage to shoot their edges slightly, as then they will fit closer and cover the rough boards that form the table top.
Instead of round stuff, also, use halved stuff for the rafters and purlins, the sawn side being uppermost.
A sixth pair of rafters to stand over the pillars and their wall-plates are made from a round pole cut in half, with the sawn side laid uppermost.
As in the last tub, the staves have been sawn to a more ornamental outline, and they have also been perforated.
Sawn through the middle, the paraffin barrel makes two admirable tubs.
The lower ends may be sawnto a variety of ornamental shapes.
The piece which has been sawn off will then be cut through (quartered), and the proper quarter replaced and nailed to the end of the box.
They are sawn in halves, straight twigs being selected for the purpose.
Or it may so happen that suitable larch stuff is not to hand, and that ordinary sawn scantling has to be used for the rafters.
In the middle of this plank-like piece of wood, which is split with the grain to stand the great strain often imposed upon it, and never sawnat all, the toes are fastened by a leather strap.
Immense stacks of sawn wood were piled up at Kotka, and in the bay lay at least a dozen large ships and steamers, with barges lying on either side filling them with freight as quickly as possible for export to other lands.
A fine watch spring saw is then introduced through a hole in an unimportant part of the design, and the patterns sawn out as in ordinary fretwork.
In modern times six or eight couples of shell and metal are sawn together, whereas two was the number in the fine period.
And was it sawn asunder merely by the age-long gnawing of the waves?
You must ask--When was the gap between the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Purbeck sawn through, leaving the Needles as remnants on one side, and Old Harry on the opposite?
It is built of sawn timber and would contain nearly one hundred people, which is too small for the festival of St. Anne, the patroness of the congregation.
Their houses are small and inferior, of sawn timber, but have windows of glass.
The work was now at an end, the bar sawn through wrenched up with a powerful effort and placed within the room.
Undaunted the wearied man climbed the walls once again, and pushed himself through the opening made by the sawn bars.
He stands on top, and the work is extremely arduous; but an enormous amount of timber is sawnin this way.
Among the skilled workmen, the sawyer and the stonecutter are most in evidence to the ordinary visitor, who is astonished to see a squared log two feet in diameter being sawn by a single man.
Thus it was, that one holy prophet was sawn asunder, another stoned to death, &c.
He would tell how he wanted to know why the water was in it, and what sort of mysterious liquid was so sealed up and treasured by the powers that be; so he had it carefully sawn asunder and the sacred ichor collected and analysed.
Ruskin hassawn the top edge and ripped out all the best plates.
I heard a tit-lark singing his loudest, and found him perched on the edge of a tub, formed of a barrel sawn in two, placed in the field for the horses to drink from, as there was no pond.
Such thoughts can only be expressed in fragments, like a sculptor's chips thrown off as the inspiration seizes him, not mechanically sawn to a set line.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sawn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
