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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, and sawbuck.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material (for example, timber), especially during cutting with a saw 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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saw + horse

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