noun
sawing
The act of cutting with a saw; a straightforward noun form of 鋸で引く.
彼は鋸引きの作業に慣れている。
He is used to sawing work.
江戸時代には鋸引きという刑罰があった。
In the Edo period, there was a punishment called death by sawing.
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.