The ripsaw teeth have cutting edges that are at 90° to the blade and act like a row of chisels; the crosscut has knifelike teeth that are set to alternate sides and cut two parallel lines on each side of the kerf, so that the wood in between is broken up.
Secure in pitch, rich in expressive detail, knifelike at the climaxes, she seemed ready for a much bigger stage.
Der Zor is a term that sticks with you, or sticks on you, like a burr or thorn: "r" "z" "or" — hard, sawing, knifelike.
As you circle to the north, however, its forms become more symmetrical and sharp-edged, evoking rows of overlapping sails or knifelike pleats.
Depending on the type of mussel bed being exploited, the bird either tears loose a mussel and hammers a hole in the shell or, finding the mussel in water with its shell open, drives the knifelike beak into the open shell, cutting the adductor muscle and preventing the shellfish from closing.
Two secondary processes also are involved: (1) case hardening of steep, bare limestone surfaces by recrystallization caused by alternate wetting and drying, so that walls or knifelike edges result from weathering, and (2) continuous subsoil solution, if surfaces are nearly horizontal and runoff is diminished.
The lower mandible is knifelike and protrudes well beyond the upper.
In use, the bending and twisting of long knifelike tools had to be avoided lest the action destroy them; this would also have been true of chisels and gouges.
They fly over the surface of calm water at speeds up to 30 miles (48 km) per hour with the long, knifelike lower mandible cutting the water.
Stiller is best when he stops mugging and lets his Jewish-caveman looks and his knifelike voice work for him.
A penguin had recently tobogganed across the glacier, its flippers slicing knifelike slits in the snow.
