wood-horse

It was my business in the shop to stretch foxskins and coonskins across a wood-horse and with a knife, made for that purpose, pluck the hair from the fur.

The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived, 1912

This gives significance to the pendant buck-saw and the lonely wood-horse.

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

There was a long road in the center where the boy at different times had sawed wood, and I noticed that where the wood-horse stood there was a large pile of sawdust.

How it was : four years among the Rebels, by Mrs. Irby Morgan 1892

Page 115 nothing had disturbed it; then put the wood-horse back just over the gold.

How it was : four years among the Rebels, by Mrs. Irby Morgan 1892

They rolled, they gnashed, they knocked over the wood-horse and sent chips a-flyin 'all ways at wonst.

Rudder Grange Frank Richard Stockton 1868

Mr. Johnson kindly let me have his wood-horse and saw, and I very soon found myself a plenty of work.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1856

Old Uncle Venner was just coming out of his door, with a wood-horse and saw on his shoulder; and, trudging along the street, he scrupled not to keep company with Phoebe, so far as their paths lay together; nor, in spite of his patched coat and rusty beaver, and the curious fashion of his tow-cloth trousers, could she find it in her heart to outwalk him.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

Old Uncle Venner was just coming out of his door, with a wood-horse and saw on his shoulder; and, trudging along the street, he scrupled not to keep company with Phoebe, so far as their paths lay together; nor, in spite of his patched coat and rusty beaver, and the curious fashion of his tow-cloth trousers, could she find it in her heart to outwalk him.

The House of the Seven Gables 1851

Mr. Johnson kindly let me have his wood-horse and saw, and I very soon found myself a plenty of work.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845

Mr. Johnson kindly let me have his wood-horse and saw, and I very soon found myself a plenty of work.

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, 1845