Noun
chainsaw (plural chainsaws)
- (forestry, machinery, DIY) A power 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.
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 (diànliànjù), 電鋸 / 电锯 (zh) (diànjù), 鏈鋸 / 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, Motorfuchsschwanz m
- Greek: αλυσοπρίονο (el) n (alysopríono)
- Hungarian: láncfűrész (hu)
- Icelandic: keðjusög f
- Indonesian: gergaji rantai (id), gergaji listrik (id) (electric saw), gergaji mesin
- Interlingua: motoserra
- Italian: motosega (it) f
- Japanese: チェーンソー (ja) (chēnsō), 鎖鋸 (ja) (くさりのこ, kusarinoko)
- Khmer: រណាយន្ត (rənaa yʊən), រណាច្រវាក់ (rənaa crɑvak)
- Korean: 사슬톱 (saseultop), 체인톱 (cheintop)
- Latvian: motorzāģis m
- Luxembourgish: Motorsee f
- Macedonian: моторна пила́ f (motorna pilá)
- Mongolian: гинжит хөрөө (ginžit xöröö)
- Norman: scie à chaîne f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: motorsag (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: motorsag f
- Polish: piła łańcuchowa f, pilarka łańcuchowa
- Portuguese: motosserra (pt) f, motoserrote m, eletrosserra f
- Romanian: ferăstrău (ro) n, fierăstrău (ro) n, drujbă (ro) f
- Russian: бензопила́ (ru) f (benzopilá), цепна́я пила́ f (cepnája pilá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: motorna pila f
- Sicilian: motuserra f
- Slovak: reťazová píla f
- Slovene: motorka f
- Spanish: motosierra (es) f, sierra eléctrica (es) f, sierra de cadena f, motoserrucho (es) m, tronzadora f
- Swahili: msumeno wa mnyororo
- Swedish: motorsåg (sv) c
- Thai: เลื่อยยนต์ (lʉ̂ai-yon)
- Turkish: motorlu testere, zincirli testere, hızar (tr)
- Ukrainian: бензопила́ f (benzopylá)
- Vietnamese: cưa máy, máy cưa xích
- 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)
- (transitive, forestry, DIY) To cut with a chainsaw.
2009 September 9, Mike Funston, “Mississauga pulls green thorn from its paw”, in Toronto Star:She and Barber once stopped a developer from chainsawing mature trees on Mississauga Rd. by standing in front of them.
- (figurative) To make quick and substantial spending cuts.