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Whipsaw
Whipsaw Whip"saw`, n.
A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame,
and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.
Whipsaw
Whipsaw Whip"saw`, n.
A kind of narrow ripsaw, tapering from butt to point, with
hook teeth and averaging from 5 to 71/2 feet in length, used
by one or two men.
Whipsaw
Whipsaw Whip"saw`, v. t.
1. To saw with the whipsaw.
2. To defeat in, or cause to lose, two different bets at the
same turn or in one play, as a player at faro who has made
two bets at the same time, one that a card will lose and
another that a different card will win; hence, to defeat
in spite of every effort.
Meaning of Whipsaw from wikipedia
- A
whipsaw or
pitsaw was
originally a type of saw used in a saw pit, and
consisted of a
narrow blade held
rigid by a
frame and
called a
frame saw or sash...
- a
frame saw or sash saw.
Whipsaw may also
refer to:
Whipsaw (film), 1935
Whipsaw Cr****, in
British Columbia,
Canada Whipsaw strike, a
strike by a trade...
- A
whipsaw strike (also
called a
selective strike) is a
strike by a
trade union against only one or a few
employers in an
industry or a multi-employer...
-
Whipsaw Cr**** is a cr**** in the
Similkameen region of
British Columbia. The cr****
flows into the
Similkameen River from the west and is approximately...
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Whipsaw is a 1935
American crime drama film
directed by Sam Wood and
starring Myrna Loy and
Spencer Tracy.
Written by
Howard Emmett Rogers,
based on a...
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rived (split) and planed, hewn, or more
often hand sawn by two men with a
whipsaw, one
above and
another in a saw pit below. The
earliest known mechanical...
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timber is
positioned to be
sawed with a long two-handled saw,
usually a
whipsaw, by two people, one
standing above the
timber and the
other below. It was...
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According to the Shakers,
Babbitt was
watching men use the
difficult two-man
whipsaw when she
noticed that half of
their motion was wasted. She
proposed creating...
-
handle on each end or a
frame saw. A pit-saw was also
sometimes known as a
whipsaw. It took 2-4
people to operate. A "pit-man"
stood in the pit, a "top-man"...
- have had
affairs with co-star
Tracy between 1935 and 1936,
while filming Whipsaw and
Libeled Lady. Loy
recounted in her
autobiography that
Spencer Tracy...
