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Swedish violin Lumbering, Slang

• a type of saw having a bow-like tubular frame and a sharp blade with many cutting teeth, especially efficient in cutting pulpwood and any soft, green wood.

  See also: Swede-saw  Swedish fiddle  

  • This term is clearly a variant of Swedish fiddle, here applied to the one-man Swede-saw.

  • 1950  Fathers and even grandfathers in the smallest towns packed their clothes, sharpened their pet two-pound bush axes and in many cases carried their own "Swedish violins," or light, tubular framed bucksaws, especially adapted for fast cutting of pulpwood.