What is another word for "saw"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "saw": adage, admitted, aphorism, aphoristic, apophthegm, apothegm, assumption, axiom, axiomatic, battlement, belief, byword, common, commonplace, conclusion, crenate, crenated, crenelle, crenulate, crimp, cut, dent, dentate, dentated, denticulate, denticulated, depression, dictum, dimple, embrasure, fact, faith, first, formula, gnomic, golden, idea, indent, indentation, jag.