Now dial. Forms: see THWART. A saw for sawing timber across; a cross-cut saw.

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1404.  Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 396. iij sawes irined ex officio, et iij twhertsawes, ij handsawes.

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1465.  Finchale Invent. (Surtees), p. ccxcix. In primis,… j twortsaw, j twybyll, j hak, j pyk.

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1567.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees), I. 268. A whippt sawe, ij hand sawes, a twart sawe. Ibid. (1577), 414. In the Ireon Seller. Eighte qwarte sawes xvjs.—thre whope sawes xxs.

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1590.  Inv., in Midl. Co. Hist. Coll., II. 31. Item iij wimbles a handsawe one whartsawe.

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1611–2.  Knaresborough Wills (Surtees), II. 34. My thwartsaw.

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1888.  Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., Thurt saw,… cross-cut saw…. ‘Plase to tich up (sharpen) the thurt saw.’

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