English

Verb

rift-saw ‎(third-person singular simple present rift-saws, present participle rift-sawing, simple past rift-sawed, past participle rift-sawn)

1. 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 163220164X:

     However, they are also rift-sawed or quarter-sawed, which means that the saw cut is radial, as shown in B, Fig.1.