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Meanings of
sawhorse
in English
Catalan
cavallet per a serrar
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A framework for holding wood that is being sawed.
horse
buck
sawbuck
Catalan
cavallet per a serrar
Catalan
cavallet
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Building tool.
trestle
saw-horse
saw-buck
Catalan
cavallet
Synonyms
Examples for "
trestle
"
trestle
saw-horse
saw-buck
Examples for "
trestle
"
1
The
trestle
-
board
is, then, the symbol of the natural and moral law.
2
The voice drifted from far away in the darkness on the
trestle
.
3
A piece of the
trestle
fell and killed two of the men.
4
They had come to the end of the
trestle
over the river.
5
The skeleton work of the
trestle
now rose more clearly into view.
1
He sat on a
saw
-
horse
and split open his pouch of pipe tobacco.
2
It was laid on supports or trestles, shaped usually something like a
saw-horse
.
3
He is also like a war- horse; or, it is suggested, like a
saw-horse
.
4
Sawing may be done either on a
saw-horse
,
Fig.
5
So he began by sprinkling some of the magic Powder of Life from the pepper-box upon the body of the
saw-horse
.
1
They ruined an uncommon good old cross-cut saw for me, and broke the
saw
-
buck
,
too, but I let it pass.
2
They consisted of a sort of
saw
-
buck
with a small mattress on it, and this furniture covered about half the donkey.
3
Say, I felt so much like two cords of four-foot stove wood that it made me plumb nervous to ketch sight of a
saw
-
buck
.
4
"No, sir," the boy answered, resting on the
saw-buck
.
5
"Go after it, you weatherbeaten old saw-buck," he yelled, just to make the play strong, before he was fairly in the saddle.
Usage of
sawhorse
in English
1
There was a crowd pressed against the police tape and
sawhorse
barriers.
2
He took me by the shoulders and led me to a
sawhorse
.
3
For some time he had been riding the saddle on a
sawhorse
.
4
That part of the world is on the other side of this
sawhorse
.
5
He insisted on the caller taking that chair; Mern sat on a carpenter's
sawhorse
.
6
Don't bring me anything that can't jump over a
sawhorse
.
7
No pressure. With a friendly grin, he hefted the saddle onto a nearby
sawhorse
.
8
He was leaning over the
sawhorse
,
taking us all in.
9
He flipped over a
sawhorse
and landed on his feet.
10
At last he saw four women standing beside a
sawhorse
.
11
He bent quickly and lifted the end again, replacing it on top of the
sawhorse
.
12
Splintered wood, too, from a table or a
sawhorse
.
13
They were stopped before a yellow-and-black-striped roadblock
sawhorse
.
14
A
sawhorse
was pulled aside, the lines parted, and we were shoved into the open space beyond.
15
At each, students worked trowels, hauled buckets, and sifted earth through mesh screens resting on
sawhorse
supports.
16
That's when she saw the red dot cross the
sawhorse
beside her, then rise up her pant leg.
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
sawhorse
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
assert the sawhorse
big sawhorse
blue sawhorse
live sawhorse
nearby sawhorse
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Translations for
sawhorse
Catalan
cavallet per a serrar
cavallet
Sawhorse
through the time