• rip saw

From rip +‎ saw.

ripsaw (countable and uncountable, plural ripsaws)

1. (woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
   • 2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), pages 4-5:

     A ripsaw will slice smoothly along the grain, but chew up the wood if it goes against the grain.

2. (uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.

• rake and scrape (Bahamas)

• crosscut saw

ripsaw (third-person singular simple present ripsaws, present participle ripsawing, simple past and past participle ripsawed)

1. To cut with a ripsaw.