English
Etymology
From chain + saw due to the chain cutting mechanism.
Pronunciation
Noun
chainsaw (plural chainsaws)
- A saw that has a power-driven and fast-revolving chain of metal teeth, usually used to cut trees.
- He used a chainsaw to cut through the fallen tree on the roadway.
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Translations
saw with a power-driven chain
- Armenian: բենզասղոց (benzasġocʻ)
- Belarusian: бензапіла́ f (bjenzapilá)
- Catalan: serra de cadena f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電鏈鋸/电链锯, 电链锯 (diànliànjù), 電鋸/电锯 (zh) (diànjù), 电锯 (zh) (diànjù), 鏈鋸/链锯 (zh) (liànjù), 链锯 (zh) (liànjù)
- Czech: řetězová pila f
- Danish: kædesav c, motorsav c
- Dutch: kettingzaag (nl) f
- Esperanto: motorsegilo
- Estonian: mootorsaag
- Faroese: ketusag f
- Finnish: moottorisaha (fi)
- French: tronçonneuse (fr) f, scie à chaîne (fr) (Quebec French)
- Galician: motoserra f
- Georgian: ბენზოხერხი (benzoxerxi), ჯაჭვური ხერხი (ǯač̣vuri xerxi)
- German: Kettensäge (de) f, Motorsäge (de) f
- Greek: αλυσοπρίονο (el) n (alysopríono)
- Hungarian: láncfűrész (hu)
- Icelandic: keðjusög f
- Indonesian: gergaji rantai (id), gergaji listrik (id) (electric saw)
- Interlingua: chainsaw
- Italian: motosega (it) f
- Japanese: チェーンソー (chēnsō), 鎖鋸 (くさりのこ, kusarinoko)
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- Khmer: រណាយន្ត (rənaa yʊən), រណាច្រវាក់ (rənaa crɑvak)
- Korean: 체인톱 (cheintop)
- Latvian: motorzāģis m
- Luxembourgish: Motorsee f
- Macedonian: моторна пила́ f (motorna pilá)
- Mongolian: гинжит хөрөө (ginžit xöröö)
- Navajo: bee achʼiishí diitsʼaʼí
- Norman: scie à chaîne f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: motorsag (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: motorsag f
- Polish: piła łańcuchowa f
- Portuguese: motosserra f
- Romanian: drujbă (ro) f
- Russian: бензопила́ (ru) f (benzopilá), цепна́я пила́ f (cepnája pilá)
- Slovak: reťazová píla f
- Slovene: motorka f
- Spanish: motosierra (es) f, sierra eléctrica (es) f, sierra de cadena f
- Swedish: motorsåg (sv) c
- Thai: เลื่อยยนต์ (lʉ̂ai-yon)
- Turkish: motorlu testere, zincirli testere
- Ukrainian: бензопила́ f (benzopylá)
- Welsh: llif gadwyn f
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Verb
chainsaw (third-person singular simple present chainsaws, present participle chainsawing, simple past chainsawed, past participle chainsawed or chainsawn)
- To cut with a chainsaw.
2009 September 9, Mike Funston, “Mississauga pulls green thorn from its paw”, in Toronto Star[1]:She and Barber once stopped a developer from chainsawing mature trees on Mississauga Rd. by standing in front of them.