A saw with a blade held in a wooden or metal frame shaped like an H, used for cutting wood.
From 'buck' (a sawhorse or frame) plus 'saw.' The 'buck' comes from Old High German 'boc' meaning a frame or stand. This compound emerged in English in the 1800s as the tool became common in woodworking.
Bucksaws are the ancestors of modern hack saws and coping saws—their simple H-frame design is so efficient that variations of it are still used in surgery and metalworking today.
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