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Sawed-off   /sɔd-ɔf/   Listen
Sawed-off

adjective
1.
Well below average height.  Synonyms: pint-size, pint-sized, runty, sawn-off.
2.
Cut short.  Synonyms: sawn-off, shortened.  "A sawed-off broomstick" , "The shortened rope was easier to use"



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"Sawed-off" Quotes from Famous Books



... him before going on into the tent. Here he was shortly absorbed in sorting his blue prints. He was studying the ground plan of the absorber, when an uncanny sense of being watched made him look over his shoulder. Von Minden, a sawed-off shot-gun aimed at Roger's back, was standing in ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie

... boss puts on a kind of eatin' jacket, a sawed-off coat that makes a growed man look plumb foolish, and she comes out in silk and satin that shows considerable hide. Have you ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart

... sawed-off little fellow known as Dutch. Flandrau had seen him in the Map of Texas country try a year or two before. The rest were strangers to the boy. All of them looked at him out of hard hostile eyes. He was scarcely a human being ...
— Crooked Trails and Straight • William MacLeod Raine



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