sawing

verb
  1. 1

    To cut (something) with a saw.

    โ€œThey were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;โ€

  2. 2

    To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.

    โ€œThe fiddler sawed away at his instrument.โ€

  3. 3

    To be cut with a saw.

    โ€œThe timber saws smoothly.โ€

  4. 4

    To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.

    โ€œto saw boards or planks (i.e. to saw logs or timber into boards or planks)โ€

noun
  1. 1

    The act by which something is sawn.

  2. 2

    (usually plural) A shaving or fragment of sawn material.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saw, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sawing