Definitions

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  • noun A pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawn with a long two-handled saw by two people, one standing above the timber and the other below.

Etymologies

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saw +‎ pit

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Examples

  • On the other side of the way was a dead brick wall; and a field after that, where there was a sawpit, and joiner's shed.

    Mary Barton 2010

  • See it there, that Gorgonian head, that sawpit of a mouth.

    Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

  • See it there, that Gorgonian head, that sawpit of a mouth.

    Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

  • See it there, that Gorgonian head, that sawpit of a mouth.

    Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

  • See it there, that Gorgonian head, that sawpit of a mouth.

    Our American King David Lozell martin 2007

  • Every street was a sawpit, and there were no top-sawyers; every passenger was an under-sawyer, with the sawdust blinding him and choking him.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • For this end, and for many others, I set off to Dulverton, bearing more commissions, more messages, and more questions than a man of thrice my memory might carry so far as the corner where the sawpit is.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Those hours, which in other countries are devoted to martial acquirements, were here consumed in the labours of the sawpit, the forge and the quarry*.

    The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

  • Those on the slopes leading to Turtle Bay would be laid lengthwise and slid downhill; once the tilt switched to Ball Bay, another sawpit would be dug at Ball Bay to deal with that timber.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

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