rift-saw
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See also: rift saw
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]rift-saw (third-person singular simple present rift-saws, present participle rift-sawing, simple past rift-sawed, past participle rift-sawn)
- Alternative form of rift saw
- 1944, Leno Ceno Michelon, Raymond J. Devereaux, Composite Aircraft Manufacture and Inspection, page 79:
- All material should be rift-sawed in so far as possible but flat-sawed lumber is acceptable up to 33 1/3 per cent of the board- foot contents of a shipment when necessary to utilize all the material in the log or cant that is of the required quality.
- 1994, Wood Technology, page 24:
- The mill's second major difference is that it rift-saws and quarter-saws the majority of its wood.
- 2015, Fred Crawshaw, Emil Lehmann, Byron Halsted, Ultimate Guide to Farm Mechanics, →ISBN:
- However, they are also rift-sawed or quarter-sawed, which means that the saw cut is radial, as shown in B, Fig.1.