cold saw

noun

1

: a saw (as a circular saw) for cutting cold metal

—distinguished from hot saw

2

: a soft-steel or iron disk operated at such an angular velocity, corresponding to a velocity of a point on its periphery of about 15,000 feet per minute, that it grinds off metal by friction compare fusing disk

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