Sawzall

See also: sawzall

English

Etymology

Marketing coinage for the tool; from saw; evoking the collocation saws all ("saws everything"); coined by Milkwaukee Tool for its Sawzall brand of reciprocating saw.

Noun

Sawzall (plural Sawzalls)

  1. A sawzall, a reciprocating saw of the Sawzall brand from Milwaukee Tool.
  2. (by extension) Alternative form of sawzall; A kind of reciprocating saw
    • 1993, Mark Currie, Rough Framing Carpentry, page 16:
      With a Sawzall you can insert the blade between the king stud and header and cut all the nails (Figure 2-4). Without one, you'd be struggling with a nail puller.

Derived terms

Proper noun

Sawzall

  1. (computing) A domain-specific programming language.
  2. A brand of reciprocating saw from Milwaukee Tool Company
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