Was China manufacturing cutting equipment? (8)
I believe the answer is:
chainsaw
'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'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chainsaw that I've seen before include "Tree-lopper's tool" , "Powered cutter" , "Power tool" , "Texas massacre tool" , "woodcutter?" .)