noun

• (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.

verb

• (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
  "They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented."
• (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
  "He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]"
• (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
  "The timber saws smoothly."
• (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
  "to saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)"

noun

• (obsolete) Something spoken; speech, discourse.
  "And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid[…]. And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded[…]."
• (archaic) A saying or proverb.
  "old saw"
• (obsolete) Opinion, idea, belief.
  "by thy saw"
• (obsolete) Proposal, suggestion; possibility.
  "c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe."

verb

• (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
  "Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw."