Derived Uses
- Familiarity with descriptions and images of sawed-off shotguns via crime reports in the public media has led to "sawed-off" being used sometimes colloquially as "small or stripped version of"; there is an example in Daimler Armoured Car#Variants.
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“The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.”
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