0 to move, or to make something move, quickly between two directions : --
1 to defeat or affect someone badly, especially in two ways at the same time: --
2 to cut something with a whipsaw --
3 a long saw (= tool for cutting wood) with a handle on each end, which is pulled back and forth between two people --
4 to influence shares, etc. in a way that makes their value change very quickly, so that it is difficult to know what will happen next: --
Early sawmills adapted the whipsaw to mechanical power, generally driven by a water wheel to speed up the process.
The goal of a whipsaw strike may vary.
To do this they must acquire a whipsaw if they do not already have one.
Logs and boards laboriously fashioned from local timber with a whipsaw were used to build the one room church.
A pit-saw was also sometimes known as a whipsaw.
Early sawmills simply adapted the whipsaw to mechanical power, generally driven by a water wheel to speed up the process.
She was watching men use the difficult two-man whipsaw when she noticed that half of their motion was wasted.
A second issue involved use of the whipsaw strike.
