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Was China manufacturing cutting equipment? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chainsaw

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'cutting equipment?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'was china manufacturing' is the wordplay.
'manufacturing' indicates anagramming the letters.
'was'+'china'='waschina'
'waschina' is an anagram of 'CHAINSAW'.

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(Other definitions for chainsaw that I've seen before include "Tree-lopper's tool" , "Powered cutter" , "Power tool" , "Texas massacre tool" , "woodcutter?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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