sawhorse
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sawhorse
Example Sentences
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I use a slim wine-box lid to slide bread into the oven, a ravaged-looking sawhorse as an impressively butch shelf.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
Streets leading to the course are closed, but on many of them, in most years, the only barrier is a blue, wooden sawhorse and a thin plastic tape.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2017
“Pavlova’s Dawg” also functions as a fine pivot between Vincent Fecteau’s shadow-box collage and Charles Ray’s stack of bricks lashed with a thick rope to a well-used sawhorse.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2016
You never know when you might need some needle-nose pliers or a foldable sawhorse or a heavy-duty ratcheting tie-down.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2016
On the way I stub my toe on a sawhorse, but manage to swallow the ouch.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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