saw pit
noun
a place for pit sawing.
saw pit
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sawpit
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saw-pit
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Etymology
Origin of saw pit
First recorded in 1375–1425, saw pit is from the late Middle English word sawpytt. See saw 1, pit 1
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“He came back to set and he said, ‘I found evidence of a saw pit in almost the exact same location at Jamestown,” Fisk says.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
And sometimes — like in Fisk’s selection of a saw pit location — his deductions were proven right by the simultaneous research of archeologist Bill Kelso, who directed the Jamestown Rediscovery Project.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
He visited the ship, and took great interest in all that was going on, particularly with the saw pit.
From The Life of Captain James Cook by Arthur Kitson
He asked about a saw pit in which he had worked when a young boy.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various
A saw "pit" is a scantling of poles eight feet high, on which the logs are placed to be sawn.
From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis
A large hole, somewhat resembling in shape an old-fashioned saw-pit, but of course of greater dimensions, is dug deep into the ground.
From Roumania Past and Present by James Samuelson
It is dinner-time, and the children have just brought their father’s dinner to the saw-pit, and are spreading a clean cloth for him on a large log of wood.
From Child-Land Picture-Pages for the Little Ones by M. Richter
A pile of logs and a rough saw-pit,—yes, yes,—she knew the saw-pit, she had passed the saw-pit that other day, and Val and she had sat upon the logs.
From Leonore Stubbs by L. B. Walford
Wise you were always, and in the saw-pit you spoke little, and wore your crape.
From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by John Brown
He set up first what he called a saw-pit, two big “horses,” each made by driving fir poles into the ground and crossing them and laying other sapling across these.
From The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Rudolf Mencl
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