Sawn .. Past participle of saw. verb 1 0 Sawn Sentence Examples of furniture, and high prices are often given for the gnarled and knotted portions of slowly-grown trees, to be sawn into veneers. Sculptured panels, with conventional motives, peacocks, eagles devouring hares, peacocks drinking from a cup on a tall pillar, are let into both exterior and interior walls, as are roundels of precious marbles, sawn from columns of porphyry, serpentine, verd antique, &c. The adoption of veneer for decoration prohibited any deep cutting, and almost all the sculpture is shallow. The heads of the piles are sawn off, and a platform of timber or concrete rests on them. Their axes were made of tough stones, sawn from the block and ground to the fitting shape. wide, and four storeys high; its outer walls are faced with sawn freestone. More sentences → Related articles Is the S or C Silent in "Scent"? The Mystery Explained Also Mentioned In four-by-two sawing boomstick sawpit swan<sup>1</sup> sawn-off paling-board sawable sawn-offs unsawable Words near sawn in the Dictionary saw log saw logs sawm sawmill sawmill-gravy sawmills sawn sawn-off sawn-off-shotgun sawn-offs
