Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A frame with legs, used to support pieces of wood being sawed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A support or rack for holding wood while it is cut by a wood-saw. Also called
sawbuck or buck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also
buck , andsawbuck .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device used to temporarily raise and
support pieces of material (for example, timber), especially duringcutting with asaw or similar device.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Etymologies
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Examples
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"A sawhorse is a thing they saw boards on," remarked Jim, with a sniff.
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"A sawhorse is a thing they saw boards on," remarked Jim, with a sniff.
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If need be, bolt it to a short 2x12 piece of lumber and set it across a folding sawhorse.
I have a Mec Jr 600 reloader but don't have a bench to mount it to. 2009
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Visiting the Google headquarters, he was taken aback by the scene: people working at haphazardly placed sawhorse desks and the director of engineering, Urs Hölzle, playing a high-tech game of fetch with his huge dog, making the floppy beast chase the beam of a laser pointer.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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The cabinet was several inches shorter than the sawhorse, and so a book entitled Colonoscopic Procedures had been wedged underneath.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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If need be, bolt it to a short 2x12 piece of lumber and set it across a folding sawhorse.
I have a Mec Jr 600 reloader but don't have a bench to mount it to. 2009
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At the centennial, they segued into an old sawhorse: John Lennon's "Imagine."
Library Marks a Centennial Marshall Heyman 2011
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The cabinet was several inches shorter than the sawhorse, and so a book entitled Colonoscopic Procedures had been wedged underneath.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Hickman had come up with the idea in 1961 after damaging a pricey Swedish armchair from Heal's while using it as an improvised sawhorse.
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Charlie was seated behind his desk, an unpainted door held up on one end by a sawhorse and the other by a chipped file cabinet.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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