[
UK
/dʒˈɪɡsɔː/
]
[ US /ˈdʒɪɡˌsɔ/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɪɡˌsɔ/ ]
NOUN
- fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines
- a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut
How To Use jigsaw In A Sentence
- The papyri are broken and illegible; you must assemble an intelligible jigsaw from jagged fragments, truncated lines and eroded ink. Times, Sunday Times
- Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.
- We spent all evening doing a 1000-piece jigsaw.
- The important thing is the fun of four people(one thin person included)sitting around a card table, working a jigsaw puzzle.
- Riders avoid our faces, and gaze down on our skull crowns where the bone jigsaw cleaves.
- Finish the cutout with a sharp handsaw, jigsaw or reciprocating saw.
- Ptolemy Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a scene of flowers, grass, and butterflies painted on thin wood that some master craftsman with a fretsaw had cut into small, irregular pieces. Antony and Cleopatra
- The back panel was easier, since I will be making an acrylic motherboard tray with a square back panel, I just cut it out with my jigsaw.
- Another piece of the jigsaw in the puzzle surrounding her whereabouts is the simultaneous disappearance of her pet miniature dachshund, Boris. The Sun
- He needs a variety of power tools, drills, routers, circular saws, jigsaws and packets of blades.