Definition of "saw"

They were stoned, they were sawen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Hebrews 11:37

He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle; […]

1835, James Hogg, The Story of Euphemia Hewit

And for thy trew sawys, and I may lyve many wynters, there was never no knyght better rewardid […].And for your true discourses, and I may live many winters, there was never no knight better rewarded […].(please add an English translation of this quotation)

1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889,

And then the justice, / In fair round belly with good capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vii], lines 152-5

At his crowning […] the priest in his honour preached on the saw, 'Vox populi, vox Dei.'

1902, Charles Robert Ashbee, Masque of the Edwards of England, page 8

There’s an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.

2017, Andrew Marantz, "Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon", The New Yorker, Feb 13&20 ed.

All they assentyd to the sawe; They thoght he spake reson and lawe.

c. 1350-1400, unknown, The Erl of Toulous

[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.

1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie

Mr. Harbaugh. All instances that I have saw.

1907, Report of the Special Committee of Investigation of the Government Hospital for the Insane‎, Govrnment Printing Office, page 297

“I think so. He might have saw him already. Shit dude, I don't know. You run the place.”

2006, K.C. Carceral, Prison, Inc: A Convict Exposes Life Inside a Private Prison‎, NYU Press, page 68

“I might have saw something,” I told him. “At least I think I might have saw something. Only I couldn't say what.”

2014 October 7, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Anybody Shining‎, Simon & Schuster, page 110