Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A frame with legs, used to support pieces of wood being sawed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A support or rack for holding wood while it is cut by a wood-saw. Also called sawbuck or buck.
Wiktionary
- n. A device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material (for example, timber), especially during cutting with a saw or similar device.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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 .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
Etymologies
- saw + horse (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A sawhorse is a thing they saw boards on," remarked Jim, with a sniff.”
“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.”
“At the centennial, they segued into an old sawhorse: John Lennon's "Imagine.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.
“The cabinet was several inches shorter than the sawhorse, and so a book entitled Colonoscopic Procedures had been wedged underneath.”
“Behind his shoulder, on the edge of the sawhorse, I could make out a small roofline.”
“In a few days you'll probably see a stack of those sawhorse barricades with lights and a few road signs stacked nearby as well.”
“The desk is made up of sawhorse legs, which you can buy and custom-make a top in the material and size of your choice.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sawhorse’.
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here, horsey!
horse-related words (sometimes several times removed from actual equines)
horse, donkey, mule, hinny, gelding, stallion, mare, hobby horse, clotheshorse, sawhorse, horseradish, equine and 28 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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cat 2012
mala fide, trafficking, impoverished, atrocity, divulge, personify, audacity, resurrect, dubious, bloated, sovereign, rein and 123 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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What do these words have in common?
They were/are code names used by the US Secret Service for presidents, vice-presidents, presidential candidates, and their families.
Source: BBC (and here again)renegade, renaissance, rosebud, radiance, trailblazer, tempo, smurfette, sawhorse, sundance, phoenix, parasol, denali and 11 more...
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An odd menagerie
Some of the creatures found in the Octopus's Garden.
vamoose, snowcat, moscow, firefox, jailbird, sawhorse, bumblepuppy, shoofly, hangdog, megabuck, engraven, brickbat and 49 more...
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This List Could Choke a Horse
horse-drawn, horse chestnut, horseless carriage, saddle horse, light horse, pommel horse, horsepower, hobbyhorse, hobby-horse, rocking horse, iron horse, flying horse and 82 more...
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From the Estate of the Brothers Collyer
A list of things retrieved from the home of two compulsive hoarders after their bodies were found buried underneath the 103 tons of garbage they had amassed over several decades. The ...rope, baby carriages, doll carriage, rakes, umbrellas, bicycles, food, potato peelers, guns, chandeliers, bowling balls, camera equipment and 31 more...
Tweets
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rfb Al Gore's (first) Secret Service code name... Nov 14, 2008