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鋸引き (nokogiribiki) Japanese meaning: sawing | Kotomora

鋸のこぎり引びき

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Meanings

1

sawing

The act of cutting with a saw; a straightforward noun form of 鋸で引く.

彼かれは鋸のこぎり引びきの作さ業ぎょうに慣なれている。

He is used to sawing work.

2

death by sawing

Historical capital punishment where the condemned was sawed to death; rare in modern contexts.

江え戸ど時じ代だいには鋸のこぎり引びきという刑けい罰ばつがあった。
In the Edo period, there was a punishment called death by sawing.

Kanji

鋸saw (cuts wood)
引pull, tug, jerk
挽saw, turn (lathe), grind

Built from

鋸のこ+引ひく

Written forms

鋸のこぎり引びき
Standard kanji spelling.
鋸のこぎり挽びき
Variant kanji spelling using 挽く (to saw).

Etymology

Compound of 鋸 (のこぎり, 'saw') + 引き (びき, nominalized form of 引く, 'to pull'). The second sense is a specialized historical extension.