0 an electric saw (= a tool for cutting hard materials) that has a circular blade, sometimes with sharp points along the edge: --
The most dangerous of all—it has now become an agricultural machine—is the circular saw.
Let me quote again the case of the circular saw.
Let him work in a factory where there is no protection on the machinery, where a circular saw is whirling round with no protection.
The sensible way is to say that a circular saw shall be provided which is safe "so far as is reasonably practicable".
It is impossible to devise a circular saw which, without qualification, is safe but is still capable of being used.
On many farms use is made of a power-driven circular saw.
I will take a circular saw as a good illustration.
He has a voice like a circular saw and a brain of feathers.