The word "sawn" is correct and usable in written English.
It is the past participle of the verb "to saw," meaning to cut with a saw or similar tool. For example, you can use the sentence, "The log was sawn into pieces."
"The problem is, nobody's ever sawn a leg off a T rex before".
However, only three years ago Global Witness discovered imports of 270,000 cubic metres of logs and 170,000 cubic metres of sawn timber in China's Yunnan province just over the border.
Some are country men plucked out by ringleaders promising large sums for sawn planks.
Last week a Taliban gang from Khyber circulated a video of an abducted Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak, having his head sawn off with a butcher's knife.
However encouraging, recent improvements accrue from a truly dreadful baseline: in the early years of the study, nearly half the tropical logs, sawn timber, and plywood traded worldwide was illegal.
Contrary to the Russian media's allegations, the war graves around the monument have not been desecrated, but exhumed prior to proper reburial; the monument itself was not sawn up, but has already been re-erected nearby, in dignified surroundings.The importance of this goes far beyond Estonia.
Early hand-cut veneers were thicker than the later machine-sawn product; although they were seldom less than 1/8 inch in thickness, they were cut by hand to 1/10 inch in 16th-century southern Europe.
After shooting Mrs Turvey, 19, at point-blank range in front of her husband Jonathan, Edwards took the seven-month-old baby to a secluded spot where he placed her face down on the ground and blasted her with a sawn-off shotgun.
During the killing spree on June 2 last year which left 12 dead, Bird, 52, carrying a 12-bore sawn-off shotgun and a.22 rifle, had repeatedly stopped his Citroen Picasso car, called victims over as if to ask the time, then simply blasted them in the face with a shotgun.
These included a leopard, buffalo, a crocodile and a sawn-off elephant tail.
Sawn-off shotguns were used in just 201 robberies last year a third the figure of a decade ago while almost 3,841 jobs were done with handguns.Roger Matthews, professor of criminology at Middlesex University, says that armed robbery is becoming Americanised, both in the sense that Britain is moving towards late-night convenience store robberies, and also in the sense that anyone can do it.
