saw-toothed

saw-toothed (not comparable)

1. Having a jagged edge like a saw.
   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimes, London: Henry Fetherstone, Volume I, Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 79,

     But afterwards three of their Companie were slaine, who in seeking food for life, found death at the hand of naked Sauages, whose weapons were Saw-toothed Darts, which if they entred, must be cut out of the flesh.

   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Cambridge: Macmillan, Volume 3, Chapter 5, p. 135,

     […] everywhere between the poplar stems the saw-toothed outline of the western forts cuts the blue sky.

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, New York: Vintage, 1972, Chapter 17, p. 149,^[]

     Craning our necks, we could see that what we had taken for the shore-line on that side was actually a high, thin, saw-toothed ledge of rock […]

   • 1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, 1983, “The Flood,” p. 31,

     Hours later, having brought in the yellow raft laden with supplies to the green shore, then hidden them in the saw-toothed tall grass, an exhausted Cohn followed Buz into the forest.