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Fretsawyer N Woodworker Works Fretsaw Tool Cutting Fine

Word fretsawyer
Definition n. A woodworker who works with a fretsaw, a tool for cutting fine details.


Sentence For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.
Source Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, p. 4

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